It’s a phrase that I often find people smuggly stating about their photographs and I often wonder,

Does that make the photograph any better?

After all, it’s not as if image files coming out of a camera are untouched by any form of processing as each digital camera will carry out its own manipulation of the image before it’s spat out.

As far as I can recall, I don’t think I’ve taken an image that couldn’t be improved with some post processing.  What does that say about me?  What does that say about my camera?

The whole point of me shooting in RAW is the latitude I get for post processing.  I’m not yet quite arrogant enough to think I won’t need it.

Perhaps, my photographic karma will suffer the consequences of post processing, but I don’t think straight-out-of-the-camera shots are big nor clever.

Am I wrong?