Posted April 11th, 2010 by Smick
This new video tutorial shows how to use a studio flash head with 120cm octagonal softbox as a single light source for portrait photography, presented by Gavin Hoey he explains in simple straightforward terms exactly how the softbox works it works. Showing how the soft light from the softbox wraps around the subject giving a [...]
Tags: gavin hoey, photography lighting, portrait photography, softbox, studio flash, studio lighting
Posted February 6th, 2010 by Smick
Gavin Hoey explores with the use of our 3 head super softbox continuous lighting kit to take portraits and shows different effects that can be achieved. This is an alternative to studio flash for taking portraits, the main advantage is that you see what you get which is good for beginners. It uses energy saving [...]
Tags: continuous lighting, daylight bulb, gavin hoey, photography lighting, portrait photography, product photography, studio lighting
Posted January 26th, 2010 by Smick
Here is our latest video produced by Gavin Hoey gives an overview of our super softbox studio lighting kit. Popular for video lighting and for still portrait lighting. We continue to expand our range of continuous lighting kits and also all our photography lighting range.
Tags: continuous lighting, gavin hoey, photography lighting, portrait photography, video lighting
Posted January 3rd, 2010 by Smick
This video adds to our photography lighting series and shows our Super Softbox 3 head Lighting for Digital and Video lighting kit in operation showing the classic 3 point lighting setup. Presented by Gavin Hoey he also includes how to shoot some other options some basic Video Lighting setups. This same lighting can be used [...]
Tags: continuous lighting, gavin hoey, photography lighting, portrait photography, studio lighting, video lighting
Posted December 9th, 2009 by Smick
If you have had trouble folding your light cube then this video will hopefully help you to get it back in the bag.
Tags: continuous lighting, gavin hoey, product photography
Posted November 25th, 2009 by Smick
Gavin Hoey shows you a trick in photoshop to extend the background of a product photography image. Enlarge a background for product photography from Gavin Hoey on Vimeo.
Tags: gavin hoey, product photography
Posted November 23rd, 2009 by Smick
Exploring product photography presented by Gavin Hoey how to get the best results using the high power tabletop lighting kit with 26cm reflectors. How to compensate for light backgrounds and black backgrounds, the same principles apply to all our studio tabletop lighting kits. Product Photography Tabletop Lighting Kits Tabletop Lighting Kit with 26cm reflectors used [...]
Tags: continuous lighting, gavin hoey, photography lighting, product photography, studio bag, tabletop lighting
Posted October 15th, 2009 by Smick
More and more people these days are using RAW files from their camera as its much more versatile than JPEG’s, you can then work with them in adobe camera raw before transferring it to Photoshop. A new DVD is out which goes through all the major functions. Produced by Gavin Hoey this is what he [...]
Tags: camera raw, gavin hoey, photoshop