basics to BANGERS (Lightroom Magic!)

[@PeterMcKinnon]

Drop a like cause its my Birthday :) YAY! Enjoy :)

[@Mirrozer]

Happy birthday Pete!

[@RubenTravis199]

Happy birthdayyyy man ❤️🎉

[@maheshshanmuganathan]

Happy Birthday Champ 👍🏼

[@hemanthsaji3274]

Happy Birthday

[@stevenlan1693]

Happy birthday!🎉🎉🎉

[@mariecruttenden2887]

Have any of you noticed that Peter is featuring other creators more often? What a fantastic way to support others and build community!

[@John_Krone]

Iceland is so surreal that it's easy to go trigger happy and take thousands of photos anywhere you look. Everyone focuses on the waterfalls and jeez that is not even the prettiest thing. There is SO much more! Love that country.

[@thaticelandicguy]

the best there is

[@thaticelandicguy]

or maybe not the best lol, many good places, but iceland is great for sure lol

[@MageshSridhar_55]

Omg! Ben’s all black setup just blew my mind and gave me literal chills.

[@brodylockwood14]

Looks stunning. Complements his editing style too, I think.

[@DomChrisOwens]

At least 85-90% of the time I spend on editing is mask edits, esspeically for photos that require major light correction, or that would benefit from seperation between key focus areas. I'll say this, Ben is 100% correct, once you begin to look at light differently while editing you'll never look at photography and editing the same way again!

[@kevindonnelly8862]

I am totally the same. Ever since I got into masking my entire workflow has changed and my edits look 10 times better. My photography friends are like how do you get your edits like this.

[@MagicallyMusical]

You're amazing! Happy birthday Peter McKinnon! Glad you enjoyed Iceland! 😊

[@AlanaWatersPiper]

I've been working in Photoshop & Lightroom for YEARS professionally and I still learn new things from your videos. Always a joy! (Also, I want to snuggle that cute little fox!)

[@KnightsoftheApex]

Oh, a video where Pete collaborated with a genius creator to create a tutorial editing content from Iceland? A classic Peter McKinnon recipe we all love and appreciate.

[@rolandemmerich5271]

anyone who is not investing now is missing a great opportunity imagine investing 1,000 and receiving 7,300 profit. Mr Adam Walter

[@ЕхатьвРоссию]

@Marcos otamendi Same here, I earn $13,000 a week. GOD bless Adam, he has been a blessing to my family.

[@bharatratna3321]

I think I'm blessed because if not I wouldn't have met someone who is as spectacular as expert Adam I think he is the best broker I ever seen

[@floydmax8586]

He has really made a good name for himself, please how can I contact the Adam Walter?

[@changlee8083]

I countlessly share my experience with co-workers at work, on how I made $23,000 from $2,000 in 7 days of trading

[@thorstenhahn5510]

Thanks Peter to draw the attention to Benjamin. How great are these lightroom adjustments. AWESOME! Really appreciate.

[@rvfamilylife]

It's like he took the name Lightroom to a whole new level. Amazing way to reshape the lighting on that mountain.

[@drmatthewhorkey]

That Jeeeeepp!!! Iceland was the first trip abroad I ever took… backpacked through the country for 18 days and it is an incredible place. Both of you helped bring back memories, thanks as always Pete

[@BenjaminHardman]

Happy birthday dude!! Cheers to endless masking 😄

[@gracebranding7501]

you are the reason my branding service exists you are my inspiration and i thank you for that keep it up my brother

[@Luis.Freitas.Photography]

You are by far the one person that inspired me the most to pursue my love for photography. Been following you for years and your work is always inspiring and motivating. Keep it up, Pete!

[@RGMGFitness]

Been so waiting for this! Thanks for delivering Peter. Great reminder how 'LIGHTING' is *EVERYTHING!!* My wife's been shooting wedding's and it's all about the lighting..just makes sense that the same holds true with landscape photography as well....thanks for the reminder!

[@danigonzalez4299]

love the newer Jeep but I do LOVE how the OLD Defender goes everywhere. That is a beast and a piece of engineering.

[@Jake.Sherlock]

these are techniques I have been using since I started learning photoshop…in 1997. Benjamin has totally mastered it. 100% do all the same with my current photography.

[@NH4Ukraine2]

Holy crap! The lighting on Ben in his instructional part of this video is awesome too.

[@Dmogul]

You know what I’ve actually done that before and it came out great, reshaping light, I only did it in one photo but I loved it, didn’t even know it was a real thing I was just trying something one day ❤

[@easternlegends]

This is so great, I really love taking the time to revisit all the foundational steps into editing in Lightroom!

[@TobeyGuthrie]

Happy Birthday, Peter! Thanks for the video

[@brittneyjohnson5272]

Aye happy birthday! I hope its filled with coffee and tons of great food ! Talk about timing of content, I'm finishing my photos from Iceland today!

[@marcosalcala9852]

Happy Birthday Pete! I love these kinds of videos, great way to finish off my friday, haha.

[@matthew.silver]

Peter! Great video, great place, and happy birthday! One thing I’d to see from your workflow is how you deal with thousands of photos in Lightroom with the cloud. Like how do you do your backup and deal with all of the cloud stuff and then preserve all of them? Or do you just pay for cloud storage or do you just use Lightroom classic? I’ve hit my storage limit and I’m sure others have too and I think that this is often overlooked with photography videos. I haven’t found a good one for the newest version of Lightroom. Just and idea that I think would help out! Keep up the bangers!

[@xjuhnx]

I love Iceland! So jealous that you spent it there with THE Benjamin Hardman. Big fan of you both. Photos look amazing! 🤩

[@JohnathanAulabaugh]

Peter McKinnon comes out with the fast is smooth, smooth is fast like an equipment operator. When Lr released the new masking tools these were the types of mask combinations that really caught my eye.

[@michaelmeehan9556]

A very Happy B-Day Pete!! It was just my B-Day too! Loved this vid! It was definitely eye opening. Going to have to experiment with this technique. Super cool.

[@Boohooooo]

Lightroom has absolutely changed my journey. I never wanted to pay for apps in the past but now I don’t mind. Lightroom is so worth it if your taking photography seriously.

[@BarkandJack]

Damn, I needed this. Motivation and inspiration: fully loaded!

[@apertureonfirephotography4795]

Kind of a proud moment for myself as i knew how to do this before the video and it does super duper help with adding just that little bit of pop to a photo even if you have a subject

[@Endlesssoulsphotography]

This is so helpful! Thank you Pete and Ben! Also happy birthday Pete!

[@Walktoasixpack]

Christ. Ben’s light re-shaping is like magic. Very impressed. 👏great video.

[@mcmaschio]

The Iceland footage is so beautiful😍 Loving this vid 🔥 amazing Pete 💯 always inspiring us creators 🔥

[@emilyginley4645]

Wow this was awesome! Thanks Pete and Ben! So looking forward to seeing your photos and videos from Iceland! Also, happy birthday! 🎉

[@michaelrankine2801]

Depending on the image/client I've been doing most of my retouching in lightroom lately, much the same way as Ben. In the past I felt like light shaping with multiple masks would just not play nicely with Lightroom and my computers performance and was only achievable in PS. I do my grading in LR then open it in PS and go wild. And I still do that, but with the latest improvements to lightroom, without impacting the performance of my macbook as much it's been awesome to use LR as a one stop shop. More people need to know about it, so thanks for sharing Peter and Ben!

[@brianringo]

Ben does some amazing work! Always great seeing the collab with other amazing photographers

[@TALESCOFFEE]

Thank you Pete, and thank you Benjamin!!

[@GertKracht]

Those dark dunes are magic! It's like watching our Dutch coastline with a thin layer of coffee grind on top.

[@royalvivace1]

Started applying those masks on Lr just with my iPhone and my photos have leveled up 10x. Freaking love you Peter. Always love your content.

[@kirbyveracruz1248]

This is amazing man. Like we already know what how to do some masking in lightroom but this isn't the first thing you intend to do when you edit your photos, reshaping light!. Simply amazing. Thank you Benjamin and Peter. Looking forward on that full iceland video

[@SpencerTimme]

Happy Birthday Pete, you are such a gem of a human and thank you for the light you bring to the community!

[@vassizle]

Happy Birthday Peter! It’s been such a pleasure “knowing you” ❤️

[@rmclean3]

Two photographic geniuses in one video. Can't beat it!

[@foryoursaviourbynils115]

That's so helpful! Thank's Pete. And happy birthday!!

[@kylehuntxr]

One happy birthday! Two this no lie just blew my mind. And three Iceland is another world. Convinced it’s like a portal into another planet. So surreal and epic

[@thaticelandicguy]

loving it!

[@ness1180]

I took his course on wildist and it was a huge eye opener for me. I’m a hobbyist, i don’t do landscape in Iceland but his tips were still so so applicable to photography in general. Manipulating the light was my favorite takeaway

[@SuperAliHero]

Hek yeah! Benjamin Hardman is the best ❤

[@stefanrhys44]

I’m heading to Iceland in a month so this was a heaven send. Can’t wait man!

[@georginacuriel790]

I was there a week before you got there, and have tons of pics too! This video was so helpful! Love you! ❤

[@nikogutierrez2011]

Happy Birthday big dog 🤘🏽 So awesome! Great post! I have been to Iceland and it was so beautiful. Can’t wait to go back 🤘🏽 Great post Pete! 🏴‍☠️

[@VHangout]

I have the perfect photo I took recently that I have never been happy with and this technique might just save it! Thanks to you both and Happy Birthday Pete!

[@catherine_becker]

Wait what?! A Benjamin Hardman Lightroom editing tutorial?! Not what I expected. Nice!!! Thank you! 😅

[@goldnuggetsales]

Happy Birthday Pete! Smashed the like button and I watch it all from you 10X.

[@shaughnbittner9015]

Love your videos. However, these type of videos are my FAVORITE!!!! I have learned so much from these type of videos! I reference them in my actual classroom lessons often! Thank you Professor McKinnon!

[@ashraf07]

Happy returns of the day fav!! ❤️

[@garrettmcewen]

This whole video gives me chills!!!

[@kaptagn]

Shaping light is one of my favorite LR techniques! Great Vid!!

[@davidoakes7782]

Wow… What an amazing technique. I’ve got a backlog of photos I’m gonna go play with. Btw, the PPK is siiiick 🤙

[@Twenty_FourFPS]

I just wanna tell you just one thing......Love you man you dont know how you are inspiring me !!

[@ianscottcastillo7709]

This makes me so happy cuz I’ve always done this with the brush tool. Love the vids man.

[@renesargsyan7273]

Pet you taught this a while ago in one of your videos… You’re the master!

[@cwTheDrummist]

Like magic. I love it! Happy Birthday, Peter!

[@ivangrdinic2605]

Pete, this is sick!!!!!! So simple. As you said, I am wondering why I haven't done this before.

[@brianbracherphotography]

Ben was great at showing that technique - he now has another subscriber 👍

[@upcomingvillain]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETER!!!!!!

[@oneonlyxram]

I just started to play with this, love it, the color adjust really makes sense.

[@evelynlobos1354]

❤❤❤ thank you Peter for a wicked glimpse as to how to bring some tricky shots to life. Benjamin is certainly a wizard with lightroom! 🎉🎉🎉Happy bday Mr Scorpio! Feliz cumpleaños from Australia!

[@kyngz_]

Literally transformed my editing skills ♥

[@michaeltrujillo9092]

Yes!! This is the good stuff. Thank you PM

[@pjasmine]

Happy birthday PM😍

[@LucasJohnsonFaustino]

Happy Birthday Peter! 🎉

[@maxcruzmedia]

The pictures looked great of course but my goodness Ben’s space grey setup was clean!

[@mihaelaclaudiap..2]

wow, that's impressive! The editing plays a huge role in the final result on a photo!

[@paulberber]

This is amazing ! 👏 happy belated birthday Pete! 📸🔥🤙

[@SRTStudioz]

one of the best videos I've ever watched❤❤

[@Morf_]

I wish i could learn how to set up that amazing studio recording of bens! looks so clean!

[@darrengodssonfielding]

So I’ve just added Iceland to my travel bucket list. Incredible place, the world is filled to overflowing with beauty. Also I’m totally going to try and use this as an editing challenge for my creative community. KEEN! Thanks Pete Happy Halloween & Happy Birthday, may it still be the beginning, not the middle of an endless adventure.

[@DavidLWhitehurst]

Peter, you’re my no. 2 mentor! I’m really sorry that Jeven Dovey is my no.1. Please keep up the good work! This was one of the best so far! I’m doing birding and bird photography videos now and between Jeven’s stories and your technical education, I’m cranking now. Excellent video. I’m trying to be cool on my videos but I couldn’t even get my sister to watch one through to the end. I’m getting better.

[@DavidFilm]

That just blew my mind, too. It’s awesome!! I’m gonna try it out right away!! Thanks Pete!! I love you lightroom or photoshop hacks always😍

[@michaeltrujillo9092]

Feliz Cumpleanos Amigo! Wishing you the best.

[@mutualfriends]

Happy birthday Peter!! 🥳 Thanks so much for teaching and inspiring us all❤

[@CrazyBlueMood]

Amazing 2 cents from Ben and PPP...Peter hehe! thank you!

[@Nicole.Sisson]

Super cool hack that never even crossed my mind!! Looking forward to your Iceland footage!! 😁

[@francislyu9809]

happy birthday Peter， really like your video cuz i can learn a lot from your channel, thank you for sharing , hope you have a great birthday!!!!!!!!!!!😊 be happy!

[@F0restRang3r]

this whole video with ben reminds me of being back in my actual dark room doing manual dodge and burn editing but on a computer. crazy how these things go full circle.

[@JustinBradleyPhotographer]

It amazes me how much more effective stacking masks is to just using one and cranking it to 11.

[@pbsnoosk13]

Thank you, Pete!!! Great information and beautiful photos!

[@trinir81]

Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the floor. He just blew my mind. Absolutely fantastic edits.

[@nasidctg]

I've been doing it since the pandemic. In the lockdown I couldn’t go anywhere so processed a bunch of old photographs. It came naturally to me when I was stuck with a lot of flat images. It's a great way to liven up a dull photo.

[@BelindaFarage]

Oh yes - Ben is AWESOME! And I live on the coast in Florida. I learned a long time ago that masks were my friend - shooting on white sand and reflective water - can be difficult. Can't wait to see what you edit Pete!

[@NathanOBrien]

Thanks for introducing us to Ben, you can never have too many exquisite creators on your watch list 🤙🏼

[@NathanOBrien]

And happy birthday bro

[@nevets7914]

I really love doing this to my photos! Really adds some character to the photo, makes it more immersive imo. Great video!!

[@weeee733]

that cannon wobble is ridiculous at the end

[@wilbertvb]

One of the best videos in thius channel!!!

[@specialized41]

Thanks for this tips in LR, another great video.!!

[@jackberry]

Wow. I've done this for years to help further isolate my subjects, and struggle severely with OCD when it comes to the edges of my images. I obsess over them to such a critical degree. Pulling dark to light, light to dark, and really having that smooth (manufactured) light shape to help lead the viewer's eye... I always leave an edit session feeling like I've spent way too much time on the image set, and like Benjamin said, playing "perfectionist." But once it becomes a style for you, and a look you tend to prefer, it's really hard to break this habit in the edit, or see any of your images where you DIDN'T do this amount of work as anywhere near "complete" or "your best." So it's really reassuring to see other photographers I look up to doing this for single images. Thanks for putting this kind of shit out, Pete.

[@CDhunt]

Worked great with a musician photos where they wanted that vast expansion of space around. I.e. like a field but was able to draw the eye in using this method on a whole new level 👏🙌

[@SKjellander]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETE!

[@JohnFisk-OHS-78]

Whoa. So cool. Absolutely stunning photos and videos from Iceland and great suggestions for using LR to advantage. I will say that I recently ran across just this idea from another YT photographer - Serge Ramelli. He's the polar opposite of your buddy in the frozen North - this guy is mostly an urban / architecture / city / portrait photographer. He's got some great tutorials on masking and lighting that are pretty sick. Really nice complement to what you're showing us here. And thanks for giving us the heads up about Benjamin Hardman! Definitely have to look this guy up. Cheers mate! J