I can imagine going off post-processing, especially if you start believing you’ve got to twiddle every switch, move every slider, and correct every portion of the picture separately (the sort of thing portrait photographers get up to with Photoshop, etc.). Far too easy to get obsessional about it, and lose the point and the fun.
But for me, I limit it to cropping to a balanced subject/background, and get the whole-picture lighting correct (living in the UK, and often taking shots in poor weather or woodland means the light is rarely right) is my usual limit - though I do play with the histogram tool: tweaking the midpoint can do great things for “washed out” shots. I rarely even touch colour balance. I’m also just using Canon’s DPP4 for this, so free but quite effective. Given just those, I find it feels much more like an opportunity to review and reflect on what I’ve taken than a burden, and in some cases, e.g. rescue a boring shadow into visible plumage.
I can imagine going off post-processing, especially if you start believing you’ve got to twiddle every switch, move every slider, and correct every portion of the picture separately (the sort of thing portrait photographers get up to with Photoshop, etc.). Far too easy to get obsessional about it, and lose the point and the fun.
But for me, I limit it to cropping to a balanced subject/background, and get the whole-picture lighting correct (living in the UK, and often taking shots in poor weather or woodland means the light is rarely right) is my usual limit - though I do play with the histogram tool: tweaking the midpoint can do great things for “washed out” shots. I rarely even touch colour balance. I’m also just using Canon’s DPP4 for this, so free but quite effective. Given just those, I find it feels much more like an opportunity to review and reflect on what I’ve taken than a burden, and in some cases, e.g. rescue a boring shadow into visible plumage.