5 Editing MISTAKES That Make Your Photos Look AMATEUR

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You know what they say, "With great power comes great responsibility". And now adays, we have all the power and all the tools we could ever want to edit our photos. Adobe Lightroom, Capture One, Luminar Neo, the list goes on. But sometimes, especially when we're at the beginner stages of our journey, our edits can go a little bit too far and look a little... underdeveloped.

In this video, I go through 5 editing mistakes that make your photos look amateur and explain why. Awareness is everything and I hope this video helps bring to light some changes that can really transform your edits!

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0:00 Intro
1:09 Mistake 1
3:23 Mistake 2
5:10 Mistake 3
6:55 Mistake 4
8:51 Mistake 5
9:52 Outro

[hoiiisensei]

I am proud to say that "I am no longer a beginner".

[OrlandoDUG]

Hey Pat, been watching your content for about a year or two and you’ve been a great instructor and mentor of sorts to me and just wanted to let you know I’m thankful, saw your 10 videos on visual patterns which have helped me more than anything else on YouTube and your videos on pursuing your passions are inspiring. I’ve come a long way with my photography but I’m currently struggling with being extremely shy and getting a lot of social anxiety when shooting, it’s almost impossible to pull out my camera in public sometimes even if I’m just photographing my friends, I’ve also got a fear of failure where I prefer not to take my chances on an opportunity to take a great picture because I fear not being satisfied with the results so I refrain from taking them and end up barely ever using my camera on the daily. I’m working on all of that and you’ve been great help, I appreciate your content and will always be here watching 🙌🏽

[Childrenoflightprod_]

It would dope to see a video on calibrating your monitor for photography

[AdventuresofCarlienne]

Thank you for these tips! Well explained and simple to understand for us. Appreciate this video a lot

[MarcEllie]

Thank you for making this Pat. You are a great teacher

[kevinrushton]

Thank you Pat, yet again another informative video. Fantastic tips and examples

[pastelxloky]

I recently reconsidered the way I crop and frame my subjects and I'm very happy about that! Excellent vidéo, thank you :)

[Lenstrovert]

I must admit im guilty with 2, 3, 4, 5. 😂 im still exploring on what my style would become and your teaching videos are helping me a lot so thank you! 🙏

[FredMurphyNYC]

Thanks! Probably the most useful photography video I’ve watched in a long while. Now to go back to some of my favorite images and see if they need a re-edit.

[icici_]

Such a helpful video, thank you so much❤

[Mariner]

Good tips. Thank you. Yeah, I think I'm in about the 3rd iteration of the over edit, under edit cycle!

[OlavJ]

Hi Pat! Are you able to create a video about typography and the relationship it has with images? I love your style and know you have a lot of knowledge regarding this!

[tomatoisred]

Thank you, Pat. Just wanted to say your recent penguin and ice pictures are really beautiful

[dmc]

Thanks for sharing he info Pat! 🔥 subbed

[yakamo]

i would love to hear more about color profiles and other related info. Cheers for the video!

[harmishgajjar]

Dude these advices mean a lot!! Never stop making these types of vids. Love from India💙

[keyboardsandlife]

I would love to see more videos about color profile and best monitor settings for photography

[BoTCoramoor]

I would love to learn more about color in an upcoming video. Thanks for all you do!

[alexlee]

I was guilty of true clarity thing for a while, pushing it up and pushing the de-haze down in order to get more information out of the raw file. I would look at the histogram and play with those sliders until every part of the histogram was shooting up on a high but consistent level (whist protecting my highlights I must point out). I also had to push around lots of other sliders to get what I wanted but focused far too much on the histogram instead of the image in front of me. It was an experimental process and I did get some okay images out of it, mostly architectural stuff. However I’ve since found that there are better ways to edit and better ways to find my own style (and you’re right Pat, it ruins portraits!). Fortunately, the other mistakes you talk about have been left behind for some time so I think I can say I’m not a beginner anymore! Thanks for making these very informative videos by the way. Some tips on black and white editing would be great, maybe you’ve already done that, if not I’m sure many out there would love it too. Thanks for your time, love watching this stuff.

[anadrol]

Amazing video ! in general I'm the most interested in on how to regroup colors in complementary tints to give a specific vibe to my image, could you please make more videos about that ?
I wish to get not only beautiful pics but an aesthetic with a distinctive look.