Light your Model like a Hero or Villain: Take and Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey

Two flashes is all it takes to create this dramatic, high contrast portrait. It's a lighting style that creates images with a cinematic look and feel. It's a style that's suitable for both an evil villain or a hero who's digging deep and battling on.

Gavin Hoey takes you through the simple steps you need to set-up this lighting pattern and after the shoot he takes you into Photoshop to add a splash of color to the background.

This double split lighting effect has a distinctive shadow running through the center of the models noise which is why it's also known as badger lighting.


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Photos by Gavin Hoey



Model Meg Biffin
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