Whats your actual editing philosophy, heavy post processing or as close to straight out of camera as possible

[JonMoxley19]

I'm firmly in the minimal editing camp myself, a little exposure and contrast adjustment and that's genuinely it, feels more honest to what I actually saw through the viewfinder

There's a real spectrum here from people who barely touch RAW files at all to people who essentially paint an entirely new image starting from a photograph, curious where people actually land and why

[Blue Coder]

Heavy editing for me, the camera captures the raw material and the actual creative work happens afterward in post, that's where my artistic voice comes through

[AlexaBliss_Fan]

Minimal editing, I want the challenge of getting it right in camera, feels like cheating to fix composition or lighting mistakes after the fact

[veritas.io]

Depends entirely on the genre for me, landscape gets heavy processing, portraits get much lighter touch to keep them feeling natural

[Callum28]

Heavy edit but I'm completely upfront about it, treat photography as raw material the same way a painter treats a blank canvas rather than pretending it's documentary

[TokenStreamRaven]

Straight out of camera purist here, even white balance corrections feel like a step too far for what I'm personally trying to capture

[Sofia_61]

I edit heavily but try to keep it invisible, the goal is enhancing what's already there rather than obviously transforming the image into something else entirely

[Dom_41]

Somewhere firmly in the middle, correct the technical stuff, leave the actual moment and composition alone, feels like the honest compromise to me