Quote Originally Posted by BlueRob
I will disagree...IMO the need of PP in most cases is do to the lack of skills with the camera itself....as I said before I will hopefully some day reduce the PP to a minimum by obtaining good pics out of the camera.
I come from a serious darkroom background. Nothing I did with film and nothing I do with digital is finished in the camera. What I capture with the camera is just the raw material I use to create my final image. It's fine to want to do it all in the camera and we should all strive to get the best possible exposures. However, it's also important to be aware that there's a ton of useful data in your digital files that you can't see. And there's nothing wrong with using software to make the most of that data. For what it's worth, Ansel Adams would have used the hell out of Photoshop. He was not a straight-out-of the-camera photographer. Not at all.