Kyle McMillan

Peter McKinnon, who has been on Youtube for eight years now, posts content related to photography. From tips, tutorials, and reviews, Peter has hit 2.4 million subscribers and 132 million views. This post is about his latest videos post: " PHOTO EDITING mistakes! - What NOT to do to for better PHOTOGRAPHY! " At just over ten minutes, Peter packs in five photo editing mistakes and they are as follows: 1. Over Edit        Be easy on the editing tools. Every tool is multifaceted. For example, when you increase the clarity you are reducing the saturation or when you bump the contrast you are increasing the saturation. An understanding of the components will hopefully reduce the inputs when editing. 2. Crop Top      Cropping is your friend. Do not let your publication (Instagram, Print, etc.) determine the size of the photo. The crop tool is there to change composition. 3. Export Master      Export a master photo after you edited. You can then worry about sizing the photo f

Visiting the infamous Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada last Summer, the picture of Lake Moraine was taken on the iPhone 7+ overlooking the lake. Being this was a past photo, I was only using the basic camera application and don't have access to the settings. Without spoiling too much information about the trip or location, I can tell you that it is worth the eight hour drive from Billings (through Calgary). The picture on the right was also taken on the iPhone 7+ and was taken in the park as well. It is hard to visit a location as beautiful as this and not take a decent photograph. If there is one thing the iPhone does well it is take beautiful shots without much assistance from the operator. The picture taken at Lake Moraine I believe could be exposed a little differently but besides that the colors are true to their nature and dynamic range is adequate. Focus is held in each photo to the best the hand-held phone could keep. Finally, the photo of Lake Moraine had mi