Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

Misread the original. Everything is edited in LR.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

Since I only shoot raw, I have to do some pp, at least have to convert, if I want to share, so yeah, I do some, the basics, but sometimes the pp bugs bite and then Ill do a lot (make some fantasy landscapes, weird designs, or something like that!

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

Sharphooter is going to get you for that.

Photographer Jim Loc: Rio Vista, CA

Oh crap, you made me laugh and I shot milk out my nose!

dhelix33 Loc: Live in Raleigh, NC - Grew up in Teaneck, NJ

I don't own any Canon equipment either - not a Canon hater though. But that comment was funny 😁

PaulBa Loc: Cardiff, Wales

Same here

PaulBa Loc: Cardiff, Wales

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

I download all of them. Cull through them and delete all the images that don't make the cut because of something like exposure, blurry, soft, not framed right etc. As I'm culling, I put a star on those that might be interesting printed or uploading to friends. When finished culling, I pull up all the images that I've put a star on and do a quick edit to see if I like it. If it looks like one I'll print or show after a little processing, I'll put a little more care into processing it. I usually process about 5-10 images from a full day of shooting or 500-800 images.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

If it's a raw image, it has to be edited, and most of what I shoot is raw. If I know that people will want them immediately, I shoot raw + JPEG. For my own use, I process everything. The one exception is if I'm taking pictures of something I'm disassembling so I can get it back together without too many extra parts. My weakness is discarding the bad ones.

firtree Loc: Florida, USA

I shoot in jpeg so not a lot of work to be done. If there is something worthy of a second glance, I tweek it, which consists of straightening, cropping, or adjusting contrast, etc. (My PP skills are lacking) I guess you could say, I rely a lot on getting it right in the camera and a lot of images end up as cyber-waste.

frjack Loc: Boston, MA

Shoot RAW. Edit and process everything. First step is deciding whether to keep or not. Once the non-keepers are deleted decide which ones to process any number of ways including converting to b&w. I usually have an idea of what I am going to do with a shot that I process. Today I am putting the final touches on a five-talk retreat for a dozen MDs this coming weekend. I use a lot of my shots for transition and title slides in Powerpoint (one can only look at so many blue slides with white print before the urge to chew off a few appendages becomes overwhelming). A very small percentage of shots I take is worth sharing. I could edit and discard much more vigorously but some of the not-too-good ones trigger particular meanings or memories. I keep those for my own viewing and contemplation and sometimes play with them in post-processing on a rainy day.

mikedidi46 Loc: WINTER SPRINGS, FLORIDA

I use Lightroom for my post processing, and I find I am using it, but to a lesser degree, My photo's are pretty good out of the camera

StanRP Loc: Ontario Canada

Understand completely. I discovered over 10 years ago the benefits of capturing images in RAW file format as opposed to JPG file format. My cameras, when converting images to JPG format, can’t compete with my brain as an image processor - neither are their in camera processors as powerful as the processors in my computers. Shooting in RAW format has provided me more flexibility with image production to make decisions on how a final image should look. Here are samples of some of my first RAW to JPG conversion, from back in 2007…

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Hi,

** My cameras, when converting images to JPG format, can’t compete with my brain as an image processor

There are two different thing being combined here:

1) Converting to JPG by the camera:
With today's DSLR's the in-camera conversion to JPG is as good or better than any computer program.

2) can’t compete with my brain as an image processor. This is a totally different 'kettle of fish' as it were.
In-camera image processing takes place in auto and scene mode and saved in JPG.
The RAW file is not processed in either auto or manual mode

While the 'in-camera auto/scene mode' processing has got a LOT better since 2007, it does not know what you want, so if it gets it wrong - processing it yourself from the RAW file is the best way - as demonstrated by the very nice pictures you have uploaded.

soli Loc: London, UK.

I shoot in RAW and the images I want to keep are all post processed. The least you have to do is to sharpen them.

jsmangis Loc: Peoria, IL

Since I only shoot RAW digital images, I post process all of my digital images in LR first, because the program also organizes my files as well. Before digital, we had to chemically process everything except for Polaroids, so I see PP as a natural progression.