Spooky Studio Set-up: Take and Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey

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Halloween is a great time to take creative portraits and in this video photographer Gavin Hoey show you how you can turn your small home studio into a spooky scene.
Branches, smoke and a little bit of white balance adjusting are the main ingredients but Gavin goes on to show you how you can enhance the foggy feel of you Halloween studio shoot with the help of Photoshop.
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Model: Kerry Allingham
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Photos by Gavin Hoey
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[@SatanSupimpa]

A lot of Gavin this week, I like it.

[@photosynthesis_by_pete4006]

Simple and suitable for all levels of Photographers. Thanks alot Gavin and Adorama Team. From Australia with LOVE

[@FrancisNeto78]

Gavin is the best on Adorama.

[@RemiManWithVan]

So inspiring as always. Thanks

[@craig_m_mi]

A great and complete video, and a bit more complex than your normal, but still easy to follow and understand. She looks great in this video too, and a welcome back to her...as spooky as she can be. Great makeup too.

[@DC.images]

Fantastic video Gavin as they always are

[@dunnymonster]

Awesome as always Gavin 😃

[@AaronGRandall]

Always a wonderful job Gavin!

[@andreak4280]

wonderful fun portrait shoot, the images look super nice! 🎃💀

[@najemo2024]

You are a magician Gavin!!

[@GertDHoll]

Gavin you're doing it again! In your small home studio, haha, I'm always happy to see your name in the title of the Adorama video's. Btw It's you who convinced me 2 years ago in Liverpool at an Olympus stand to buy an E-M5 II kit and I'm still glad I took your advice.

[@DONNYLAI95]

Gavin's the best...

[@safeharbor7]

Your videos are always fun and interesting Gavin, I've been watching your videos for years now and never get tired of them. Kerry is a stunningly beautiful model. Big thumbs up Gavin

[@onthemove301]

A true artist at work!

[@chirag4]

this was absolute best

[@davidribeiro6905]

Wow, just wow. Stunning work Gavin.

[@blaed011]

Great work, Gavin, as always! Nice to see you in person at the PhotoPlus Expo in NYC, great small studio session, you had a packed house!

[@ChrisHunt4497]

Thanks very much. I loved the smoke textures and how to apply them. This was very useful for me. Great.

[@RafaelAntonioRiveraRodriguez]

Todo un maestro Gavin, muchas gracias por sus enseñanzas , saludos desde Colombia

[@Boule2neige41]

Hello Gavin!
Once again, a wonderful job for a wonderful rendering ...
It is from France that I look at your work assiduously every time with wonder.
A huge thank you ...

[@ot7withsugaprob]

Great as always

[@pgbrierley55]

Great stuff as always, Gavin!

[@andyw570]

Thanks Gavin for all the great videos!

[@paulbell9957]

Absolutely love this video mate. Can't count how many times I've viewed it now. So creative 👍👍

[@anafusion]

Wow this is incredible, thanks for the tutorial.

[@HectorCantres]

Amazing shoot

[@billcubitt9456]

Fantastic video again and with free smoke!

[@geeeee8268]

Dood, you just made my day. I have scheduled belated Halloween shoot tonight... Awesome!!

[@flickerlite]

You are a great teacher, thank you for teaching me so much about photography.

[@robertwilson2877]

Brilliant Work Gavin...thanks !!!!!

[@richardpearshouse2305]

Another great video Gavin. Thanks.

[@Neopulse00]

Awesome makeup and costume overall.

[@KYY24ProjectOfficial]

looking really smooth and this is amazing

[@scottnelle]

Awesome image, Gavin, Kerry, and whoever did the makeup!

[@adambourne4510]

Scott Nelle the make up was done by Kirsty Cox Artistry

[@Mr_Grumpy]

Great work, awesome model.

[@ImKari11]

Very informational & helpful.

[@MikeJamesMedia]

Another fun setup as always, Gavin. Thank you!

[@andrewknots]

Really fun demo Gavin, thanks!

[@owentaweeruksakul7252]

thank you for sharing Gavin!! i am your big fan in the US.

[@christopherstark6773]

Great video. I really liked some of the images with the bigger tree branch in the foreground. It helped to add some nice depth to the image that, with the smoke, added to the sense of the background going further back, even though it was a wall.
Hope you are enjoying that time in NYC. I wish I could have seen that workshop in person. Hope to see some other Gavin in NYC videos (another 15 minute photo challenge perhaps?).

[@delhunter7530]

Another cracking vid Sir Gav...

[@willianwas8687]

amazing tutorial , model and al make up great... tanks to share...

[@Zoe_2112]

Love your work Gavin. Keep it up.

[@Sooch900]

Great video and awesome results!!

[@FlyingNikon]

As always, a fantastic instructional video, thank you!

[@denisduchesne2899]

I though it was Wednesday but when I saw this new video... I realized it was not! Nice video again!!!

[@anthonyhedger4301]

Love it Gavin

[@mightymuffinful]

Fantastic tutorial! Thanks

[@ЕвгенийЛагунов-ц2ы]

Amazing!!!

[@EstebanAraque]

GREAT JOB THANKS.

[@alanplatt888]

Nice work, fantastic result

[@ajaxrodriguez8956]

Great tutorial!!!

[@mr265t]

Gavin the Master

[@liverpool1966huyton]

Thanks for the freebies . Keep up the good work.

[@willynordboe5853]

This was great! hope there is more like this on your channel.

[@iraidelson4407]

Gavin you do the most amazing things in your small studio!! Love this idea and plan to try a variant of this. I was wondering one thing. How are you keeping those branches supported upright?

[@davekelly8168]

Awesome stuff, wish i could do all that magic on PS..

[@pictureeyecandy]

Great video!

[@hackintoshslovakia368]

great tutorial as always, thanks from Slovakia !

[@renetimbang188]

great teaching..

[@richardwintle1020]

How is it I'd never seen this one before? Great stuff as usual Gavin (and Kerry... and the MUA!). :)

[@carolelabrecque2799]

Great video 👍👍👍

[@carlageorgina]

so great to meet you at Photoplus! awesome work!

[@sonnar_joa]

awsome!! great! sir Gavin!

[@xxwrd]

Welcome back

[@rolandrick]

Halloween! Yeah! 👻 Spooky tut, Gavin, I like them all 😁 (not only the spooky ones). In this one, I also very like the background music selection. From Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt", "In the Hall of the Mountain King" 👍

[@markmondaini4088]

Super Gavin !!!!!

[@kmulhall8233]

The was great!

[@MrAlbertNL]

Great tutorial again, thnx

[@HarborGraphX]

Another great video
Cant wait to get my 45 F1.2 next month
Hope to see what you do with that lens
best regards, Big rick

[@henriquevicente2620]

very good video

[@mariopachon8631]

thkanks for the information...

[@tcrushoutdooradventures7814]

Thanks for this and your other great videos, it's Just what the Mad Doctor ordered for my Horror Shoot.

[@alexmat65]

Hello Gavin, why you did not use a blue gel for the background instead the orange one in front? Is there any reason for that choice?

[@paulburwood8231]

Great video and free smoke textures; just hope you have a few trees left in your garden :-)

[@mikeczosnek4425]

Your the man!

[@NaveenSantharam]

Which is the BEST way to store/backup the photographs, for lifetime (i.e., without lose of quality or getting damage) ?
HDD or anything else pls be particular
Size needs backup: more than 500GB & increasing

[@PhottixHQ]

Cool video ... keep up the good work.

[@Pete051]

One thing puzzles the trigger appears to be the 433mhz version and I thought the AD 200 used the 2.4ghhz version

[@achimbuchholz9499]

Hy Gavin. Great like always :-) Where from do you get your ideas for the shootings???????

[@johnd2631]

Very nice! Love your work. Who is editing your videos? Adding smoke from an incense stick was very smart. What software do you use to edit your video stuff? thanks.

[@BillMrWild]

Great stuff Gavin, I thought there would smoke somewhere....

[@randomguy2k13]

So good! :O

[@satantxiki66]

You are te very best

[@fabricebouvart3374]

Hello Gavin
What is the size of your home studio ?

[@westenbergerstephan5955]

You put a lot of effort to the picture but I guess it payed out very well - well done!!!!

[@antoninomacaluso2094]

Good good....Antonino Italy

[@kodjokpakossou2235]

bow Down Master Garvin

[@TheFede65]

👏👏👏

[@beerbaron3003]

Great video Gavin... but a Halloween shoot, and no clarity slider used!!!

[@mdturnerinoz]

Very Tim Burton-esqe; nice!

[@Foche_T._Schitt]

@7:00
Hey it's Poe!

[@zayarnaylin3192]

How tall is she?

[@gewglesux]

Kerri looks like my Ex's mama- AFTER the makeup.
Thanks G

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[@photographerjonathan]

You didnt really capture the makeup on her arms and legs that great. Actually you didnt even shoot the legs. But the skeleton arms didnt really show in the images like maybe they could have. .