Weekly Poll: Are most of your pictures post-processed or straight out of camera?

[SkySpade]

I picked Straight out of camera.

I like it when the picture is fresh out of the camera because, with raw, you're really getting the moment when it happens, as it happens. But I understand the need (because I do it to sometimes) to crop and fix exposure.

[windrider86]

Most I tend to do a little something to. It may be just a simple sharpen, crop or possibly boost the contrast but rarley am I ever 100% satisified with what comes straight out of the camera.
Does this make me a bad photographer?

[dmvp]

Almost all of my shots are SOOC. I'm one of those "purists" that like to get it right in camera. I'm not against PP. People can do what they want, but I like to not use it if possible. I'll crop or convert to B&W every once in a while, sometimes I'll adjust exposure, but I don't like to take the time to shoot in RAW and adjust everything later. Takes too much time.

[troutwhisperer]

Most of my pictures are straight out of the camera. However, there are occasions when I will crop or make minor exposure adjustments through Picasa before I distribute to family and friends.

[Liz Caldwell]

I always do at least a levels adjustment, from there I may adjust color/saturation, and then it's lighting and vignettes.

[charliere]

I cropped a lot of my shoots, and sometimes I sharpened or adjust the color at photoshop.

[camillecc]

Originally Posted by dmvp

Almost all of my shots are SOOC. I'm one of those "purists" that like to get it right in camera. I'm not against PP. People can do what they want, but I like to not use it if possible. I'll crop or convert to B&W every once in a while, sometimes I'll adjust exposure, but I don't like to take the time to shoot in RAW and adjust everything later. Takes too much time.

I am with you there. I am still new and learning a whole of things and tricks still. So I prefer to be able to try and create a shot that I know I would be happy with without the PP. I want to get things down to pat before I start getting creative...

The most I would do is convert to B&W, straighten and crop...

Once am probably comfortable with playing around with the exposure then I may cross over...

[i_luv_ph0tos]

I got most of my pics straight out of the cam because I don't think there's much to do... I'm not trying to sound like a pro cause I am really just a newbie... But maybe I only got few of my pics processed because I dont really know yet how to do the "tricks" in photoshop.... most of my processed pics are edited though...

cropping counts???

[joefish]

The majority of shots I have ever taken have not been post processed.

Things started out this way because I wanted to concentrate my learning on just a few things at a time (taking better photos is worth more time spent learning that post processing, IMO).

Then after that, I started taking a lot of event stuff (actually, I've always taken a lot of event stuff). Not really formal events like weddings, but lower-key, yet we really want photos type stuff (birthdays, conferences, etc). The types of events where you end up with a few thousand photos (and you might keep 800 of them or so). Who wants to post process 800 photos from a week long conference?

Now I've bought some editing software (Bibble), and I'm starting to play round with post processing a lot more. I have a feeling that from now on a lot of my shots will have basic post-processing done (white balance adjustment, straightening, etc). I still don't plan to spend ages working on individual photos with regularity, though.

[n2sooners]

I do curve and level adjustments along with sharpening on pretty much every shot I process. Then on some of those I have a little photoshop fun.