Pure Black & Pure White Studio Backgrounds | Take and Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey

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It might sound like the simplest of studio backgrounds to work with but getting a black background to be 100% pure black in camera is trickier than it sounds. The same is true for the opposite color. A white background makes for great portraits but to make a 100% pure white background needs careful lighting.
Gavin Hoey steps up to the challenge of creating both background colors, starting with black. But as he explains, black fabric on its own isn’t going to guarantee you a true black background. Gavin shows how minimizing the flash-to-subject distance and controlling reflections is the secret to getting deep, dark black backdrops.
Next, Gavin uses the white wall of his small home studio as a background for portraits. Once again it’s the distance of the key light that controls the brightness of the background but as Gavin shows, if you want a true white background without shadows, you need to light the white. Adding a background light with just enough power to blow out the background but not your model's features is the aim.
To compliment both the pure black and pure white looks, Gavin uses a Flashpoint AK-R21 projector with a selection of gobos. This is attached to a Flashpoint eVOLV200 flash and creates dramatic lighting effects on his model, Chloe.
Timestamps and Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:10 Camera settings for black and white backgrounds
1:43 Making a true black portrait background
3:22 Setting up multiple flashes with grids
5:18 Adding the AK-R21 Projector + Gobo
5:55 Pure black background portrait session
6:30 White background with one flash
8:24 Lighting for a true white background
9:25 Adding the AK-R21 Projector to the white scene
10:15 Pure white background portrait session
10:56 Conclusions and Subscribe
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@josephchan4198 8 ай бұрын

Watching this channel, I have learned a lot about advance lighting. Kudos to Gavin and Adorama for great content.

@emofunster 4 ай бұрын

I am amazed everytime how professional Gevin is ! Hell of a good teacher 🔥

@csc-photo 8 ай бұрын

I can't express enough how helpful Gavin's lighting videos are - clear, easy to follow, and always motivating! Very thankful for his content 🙏🏻

@DerBerger69 2 ай бұрын

Einfach mal Danke sagen…, NIEMAND schafft es einem die Lichtsetzung so leicht und sympathisch zu vermitteln, wie Gavin. Dank dir habe ich enorme Fortschritte machen können. Deine Beiträge hier auf KZfaq sind mit Abstand die Besten.

@valentinmammone651 5 ай бұрын

the comparison of black and white with the text was genious

@stephenmuller5098 8 ай бұрын

You are great at explaining what you are trying to achieve, and keeping it simple. many thanks for the many videos so far!

@gvasquez330 8 ай бұрын

Always a joy and of course educational 😊Thank you

@rickfarber4243 8 ай бұрын

Gavin is charming, as always.

@willemfloris 8 ай бұрын

As always, so very well explained and showed. Thx Gavin.

@RalfWeyer 8 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot Gavin 🙏. These videos are so much fun to watch and so useful. You always make things look so easy, but I guess that’s “just” a great photographer with tons of experience knowing what he’s doing 😉

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

That and the power of video editing 😉

@shirishpandey3503 8 ай бұрын

Superb, thanks Gavin

@ziko2371 8 ай бұрын

Gavin,you are the best

@kirstyhepworth7343 8 ай бұрын

Fantastic video as always Gavin 👏 👌 👍🏻 😀 🙌

@dr.alihanoosh5763 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. Love your videos and how you structure them to get the message across. I owe a lot of what I know about photography to you @GavinHoey. Thank you, and please keep your videos coming.

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words. I'll keep them coming as long as you keep watching... and as long as Adorama will have me 😉

@L.Spencer 3 ай бұрын

I needed this the other day, hopefully I can remember it for next time! Thanks so much!

@rayman5704 8 ай бұрын

Great video! I always enjoy watching your video. 🙂

@Black_Jesus3005 8 ай бұрын

This was awesome!

@jeffsielski5385 8 ай бұрын

This was awesome!! 👍excellent photo shoot!! Always very informative 👍

@prakashkadam9712 3 ай бұрын

Always learn more in his every photography tutorials , thanks u sir.

@johnclay7644 8 ай бұрын

Another great video on mono photography in studio, clean backgrounds etc, well done and Thanks Gavin.

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

Thanks John 👍

@danbrowning2418 8 ай бұрын

Very well done.

@kennethnielsen3864 8 ай бұрын

Hi Gavin, thanks for sharing.

@paulbell9957 8 ай бұрын

Another insightful video Gavin. You make learning so much fun. Beautiful images as always 🙂🙂

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

Thanks Paul 👍

@BiggieZee 8 ай бұрын

Aah Gavin vids seriously make the day better 👍🏼👍🏼

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

Thanks BigZ I'm happy to help 👍

@chazM6116 8 ай бұрын

Have a grey background and have any colour you want :) great as always Gavin

@edwardgreven7819 8 ай бұрын

Cool as always, thanks for the ideas!

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

Thanks Edward, have fun with the ideas 👍

@RRH995 8 ай бұрын

amazing video as always!!

@marcusprime6766 8 ай бұрын

I need that, " gobo"! 😐 Thanks for the great work Gavin Hoey. 😊

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

Thanks Marcus, it's oldie (the gobo) but a goodie 👍

@fountainvalley100 8 ай бұрын

Awesome video.

@wendsignstudio 8 ай бұрын

thank you .. this channel really really help me, to understand more about lighting in studio. Thank you. :)

@dunnymonster 8 ай бұрын

You're early this week Gavin 😋 Always enjoy my weekly hit, another excellent tutorial. My first backdrop was grey, apparently thats the easiest to turn black or white or even coloured with gels ☺️

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

If you had to choose just one background grey is always the best 😉

@andymcgarty3099 8 ай бұрын

Great procession from one light to three, really showed well what each did. Great video. Think I preferred the black background. Great use of a gobo.

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

Thanks Andy. Black works for me too... but then again I love the white!

@parttimephotographer3384 8 ай бұрын

Love this video!

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

@waky123 8 ай бұрын

great video

@SidneyPratt 5 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@SteveBryson 8 ай бұрын

I sold all my camera kit a few years ago. The more I see these videos the more I'm being pulled back into buying some new kit...damn you Hoey!! 😂

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

I know someone who can loan you some kit if you feel the urge 😉

@adambennett2840 8 ай бұрын

Great work as always Gavin 👍. I’d not seen that projector before and am now keen to purchase one, can you confirm which gobo slides that you used as I can’t see them within the Godox packs available to buy, thank you

@issacissac9861 5 ай бұрын

amazing video and thank you so much for the super informative clips here. I just wanted to ask, for the projector, where did you get the gobos from? the ak-21 doesn't come with those :D

@truthsayers8725 6 ай бұрын

i havent subscribed because YOU are the only Adorama content creator, i care to see or listen to. i dont care so much about the others...

@FernandoMartinezFilm 6 ай бұрын

😢

@MrRykymaru 7 ай бұрын

Hi, great video. Thank you for your great work, which I am following closely. I have a question about using a flash with an optical modifier combination. Isn't it dangerous for the model to flash into her eyes? Thank you for your info.

@carlosmozephoto 7 ай бұрын

Hi Gavin! Have been a fan for quite sometime and that took me into Adorama's store in NYC!!! Quick question: the camera is tethered how? CO w\ an iPad? Brilliant in all aspects and highly motivational! Cheers Carlos

@timlarge7420 5 ай бұрын

Great instructional video I enjoy your style and the content is spot on, but I'd like to see some more diverse models used.

@aburashidibrahim7250 5 ай бұрын

gavin and mark vallace are dictionary of photography 😊

@barneylaurance1865 8 ай бұрын

Very clear & actionable presentation. My question is how important is it to get the black and white background perfect or near perfect if we have access to good photo-editing software? With a plain background it should be relatively easy to mask the subject and brighten / darken or fully replace the background. Probably easier to hide the join if the original background in the raw image is close to the intended background.

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

I really enjoy a bit of post processing, but the thought of having to create unique masks of fine hair on a dozen photos just to make the background black or white isn't one I'd relish. Fine for a one off but more then that, getting as right as possible in camera would be my recommendation.

@GSHemuli 8 ай бұрын

Excellent video again! Question regarding the model´s hair against the white background. It is very easy to loose the detail in the hair when trying to make white background white. I saw some loss of detail already in this video. It becomes even harder if model moves slightly backward and forwards (for example when photographing kids). So the question is that is it really good to have same f-stop at the back of the model as in the front?

@alun7006 8 ай бұрын

That's the *maximum* you can use. You could bring it down a little and it'd still work.

@sakthiannamalai5455 8 ай бұрын

Advance Deepavali Festivel Blessings My Brother.

@franciscogranadeiro604 8 ай бұрын

The gobos you used with the AK-R21 come with it ir are from other make ?

@68triathlet 8 ай бұрын

Txs a lot for sharing. What gear do you use for thetaring? It looks really simple but effectful!

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

I'm using a TetherTools orange USB2 cable to connect my camera to my Lenovo Miix 2 in 1 Laptop / Tablet. That runs OM Capture and OM Workspace software to download and display the images. It's a very robust and reliable system 👍

@jm.wowvisuals 4 ай бұрын

Hi Gavin, where do you get the gobos for that projector. The ones included are more like scenes. Are they homemade? Also where did you get the Sekonic orange case? Thanks

@alvarosalguero3651 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video Gavin, very helpful as always, but can someone tell me how to meter high speed sinc because my camera goes up to 200 then is high speed sinc…

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

You can meter with the Sekonic L-858D or use the trial and error or use TTL mode or use TTL flash and TCM mode to convert TTL to Manual 😉

@DavidLaslett 8 ай бұрын

Many thanks for this Gavin (and Chloe of course) ! Could you recommend a bowens mount projector kit that would work with my godox strobes?

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

Hi David. Check out the Westcott / Lindsay Adler Bowens mount projector www.adorama.com/we4760b.html

@DavidLaslett 8 ай бұрын

Thanks Gavin, will do! And keep up the good work. 👍

@photonsonpixels 8 ай бұрын

Hello Gavin. Can your flash meter trigger the flash remotely? Thank you for your great tutorials!

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

Not with the Sekonic L-308 but I also have the Sekonic L-858D with the Godox transmitter and that can indeed remote fire the Flashpoint flashes.

@photonsonpixels 8 ай бұрын

@@GavinHoey Wow! That is expensive. So how do you trigger your flash with the L-308? Thank you, Gavin.

@Riverrockphotos 7 ай бұрын

So I rendered the projector you used in this demo but where did you get the blinds look transparency? In none of the slide available even from GODOX they don't seem to have them.

@robertotorres3969 2 ай бұрын

Which gobo set are you using here? I can't find anything that is made for the godox AK-R21

@janlasalle8845 8 ай бұрын

In my mentors old studio I use to shoot on black exclusively ..background for the dancers was a pure black. I realized a few years later it must have been that the drapes were a pure black thick velvet...when I moved I used a different set of black drapes...lesser quality velvet and the black wasnt as deep..I guess this had to do with absorbtion.

@photographydiscourse1185 2 ай бұрын

When I look up this projector with you link - I don't see where to get the gobo slides - I see the other sliders available but where do you get the geometric shapes and lines that you were using? -PD

@JonSupko 8 ай бұрын

Where do you get the gobos for the projector? I just see only slides available.

@pasztorlaszlo 7 ай бұрын

Where can we get those gobos for the AK-R21? I have the kit, but I'm struggling to get the right pattern gobos/folies. I'm trying to print to myself by creating with vector graphics, but the (print) quality is not 100%, so I'm not satisified. Could anyone find the right pattern gobos for this kit? Where can we get them? Any help would be appriciated. Thanks.

@francescoaltobelli1569 8 ай бұрын

Hi, I've a question about AK-R21.. Is the 65mm stock lens usable to project patterns on the model's skin (like Gavin samples) or 50mm is better? Thank a lot!

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

In my opinion the 65mm is fine but you'll need to back up the AK-R21. The 50mm helps in a small studio for sure 😉

@francescoaltobelli1569 8 ай бұрын

Hi@@GavinHoey!!! Thanks a lot!! Your suggestions are very clear and precious for me!! I'll try to buy the 50mm cause I've a very tiny studio.

@kennethnielsen3864 8 ай бұрын

Is this an older recording ore did you change back to the old light meter?

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

Nope, mixing up the light meters because I have two 😉

@MTimWeaver 8 ай бұрын

For the AKR-21, I see on Adorama's site that there are several lens options, including 50mm, 65mm, and 85mm. What do those different lens options do for the projector?

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

There's a clue at 6:06 basically the wider the better in a small studio 👍

@MTimWeaver 8 ай бұрын

@@GavinHoey Thank you.

@jeffellis662 8 ай бұрын

Where did you get the gobo for the Ak-r21? All is see at adorama are slides and none of the slide kits have any simple gobos in them :(

@Lognamackya 8 ай бұрын

I was wondering the same thing

@pasztorlaszlo 8 ай бұрын

I wanted to ask the same. I'm fighting to create my own ones for the AK-R21. I don't understand, why isn't there an official kit with the "right" gobos/slides. @GavinHoey Can you guide us please, from where can we get "normal pattern" (like window, simple circle, the first pattern on Chloe's face etc.) slides/gobos?

@peterjefferson4776 8 ай бұрын

I was about to ask the same question I dont like the slides available for the AKR21 but these look great.

@Joesphotography 8 ай бұрын

Can you do the same thing with the light blaster? Or can only the rk-21 cause its lens is smaller?

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

You can totally swap the AK-R21 for a LightBlaster set-up 👍

@Michel_Vanaken 8 ай бұрын

But, but, but... It's only Tuesday! I thought "waow, they have gobos for the AK-R21, now", then I saw that you are using discontinued stuff. So, please Adorama, Godox, anybody, make them available, please. TIA.

@frabo1000 8 ай бұрын

Yes! I want the gobos too!!! Please?!?!?!

@martynphillips6646 8 ай бұрын

Years ago I used to worry about the numbers, then i realised they only matter in my situation, nice job Gav!

@GavinHoey 8 ай бұрын

Absolutely right 👍

@b991228 8 ай бұрын

How about using a lighted scrim as a clipped white background. Meter across all the background to verify an even clipped lighting. Meter back of subject to verify background lighting is far enough back that it has not reached the subject. Finally add light to subject. The other unspoken bug-a-boo in any small studio is inverse square law. Tomorrow-tomorrow-tomorrow.

@barneylaurance1865 8 ай бұрын

How would lighting a scrim be different to lighting a wall?

@alun7006 8 ай бұрын

I've done this with a big softbox. Works fine.