Originally Posted by
rpcrowe
My take on photography is that the photographer begins to formulate an image when he/she uses his recording device (camera, cell phone, etc.) to crop the portion of the world that the photographer wants to save away from the portion of the world that he/she doesn't want to save.
Then the creative process continues with the originator of the image post-processing that image until it becomes something like the original scene or, on the other hand, until it becomes what the photographer envisions.
I personally would not generally hand over my images to another person to post process and certainly don't want an inanimate object (the camera) to post process what I shoot.
That is why, I always shoot in RAW and almost never display images SOOC. They are to me only half-way in the creative process. However, if it rings someones chimes to have "fun" with images SOOC, who am I to criticize another photographers fun. After all, except for the folks making a living with their camera, photography is all about the fun involved...