Photo Editing Mistakes
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 for your publication. This is in case you go back and want to resize the same photo for a different purpose. This tip will reduce headaches.
4. Humans Not Aliens
Humans naturally have pores and when we try to edits or smooth them out they start to look alien like or when we try to edit the eyes, sometimes this can lead to a demonic look. Don't push skin tones too hard.
5. That's So Cliche
Avoid cliche photographs. Do your best to be original and understand that just because you can take a certain type of photo doesn't mean you should.
These tips will hopefully help me produce better photos all around. These tips all happen while editing but can help prior to processing an image as far as composition, exposure, aperture, etc. Hopefully these can also help anyone else reading.
Shot on Sony A7iii
Focal Length: 50mm f/7.1
Shutter Speed: 1/125
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 for your publication. This is in case you go back and want to resize the same photo for a different purpose. This tip will reduce headaches.
4. Humans Not Aliens
Humans naturally have pores and when we try to edits or smooth them out they start to look alien like or when we try to edit the eyes, sometimes this can lead to a demonic look. Don't push skin tones too hard.
5. That's So Cliche
Avoid cliche photographs. Do your best to be original and understand that just because you can take a certain type of photo doesn't mean you should.
These tips will hopefully help me produce better photos all around. These tips all happen while editing but can help prior to processing an image as far as composition, exposure, aperture, etc. Hopefully these can also help anyone else reading.
Focal Length: 50mm f/7.1
Shutter Speed: 1/125
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