Sorry buddy, but you just don't seem to understand how digital photography works. Most professionals who don't shoot film, shoot RAW. If your not familiar with RAW format, you HAVE to process your photos in some form of editing software, and by your description that would qualify as editing. Proper, effective post-processing takes as much skill as taking a great photo, and if done properly it should only be complementary to the picture, not supplementary. Being good at editing has nothing whatsoever to do with how good of a photographer you are.
Is it really that difficult to understand the concept he is talking about..??
Being new to Digital myself I understand what he is aiming at. Yes RAW need processing to produce the pictures....BUT I think the point is clear....Do nothing else after the picture is produced...ie do not adjust brightness/saturation do not add Post processing filters or crop 65% of the image to get just the key elements of the picture.
I know with FILM post processing was done by the Photographer in the dark room. But some of us poorer photographers had to depend on sending film to the lab to be processed and accepted the image we got back from them.
And I think that is what we are looking at here...ACCEPTING what we take as a picture in it's own right. I know my own pictures took on another life once I had my own darkroom. But while sending them to the lab I had to put a bit more effort into my work to get that image I desired. I do feel I have now become lazy about my pictures. Sometimes it is easier to take that shot from a little further back knowing it can be cropped and fine tuned at the PC. As I am still playing at it I do not shoot RAW. But then I do not need perfection...
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