camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.

If you seriously look at it ALL images need some kind of post processing. If you shoot JPEG files I would advise to keep post processing to a minimum since JPEG are 8 bits files and post processing could bring shifts in colors and artifacts.
If shooting RAW data that data needs post processing to bring all of the goodness the data is capable of.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

I shoot in RAW so I have to PP with ACR. On the resulting JPEG, I always do a quick Auto Levels adjustment. Usually there is no noticeable improvement but at times the result is a noticeable improvement.

Lucian Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio

I called this one, "Meeting your never before known of, twin fairy in the woods, for the first time". In this one, I took a photo of my daughter in her ballet class, when she was against the mirror. I then cut out a section of that and created the rest of the scene with many, many layers, building up the scene as I went along. And the best thing is that I can change or add and remove things at any time in the future by keeping the image in layers and not flattening it, which you could never do in film. You had to begin the process all over again, to change what you might have created in the dark room.

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

I enjoy PP very much, just wish I was better at it. I'm very jealous of creative people who are able to create beautiful scenes that require dozens of layers.

VTMatwood Loc: Displaced Vermonta in Central New Hampsha

I do very little post processing of my images. I do, however, shoot in raw, so I have to do a little, but it is limited to basic LR tasks. I generally will do some level of sharpening in PS with a High Pass filter, but that is about it. I do enjoy it simply for the outcomes. Since I am not so skilled in either LR or PS advanced features... I guess I like what I can actually do :)

Lucian Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio

This was another one I created. I took the photo in the living room then cut my daughter out and created an all-new fantasy scene, she loves fairies. I also had to create a new shadow of her body to give it realism, on the bottom right side of her body. When all was done, I added a crackled top overlay to make it seem like an old canvas. Again, this was made up of many, many layers.

I take photos of all sorts of strange things, to keep as bits that I may one day use to create a fantasy image. Things like tree bark, floor textures, wall textures, torn paper etc. and then I take pieces out of photos I may have taken in the past, such as the distance forest line, or a clump of grass, or small group of little flowers. All to keep on file to pull out at some future time, to create a fantasy scene.

I must say that this is one of my most favourite images. We have a large canvas print of it on the wall.

cactuspic Loc: Dallas, TX

I enjoy focus stacking macro botanicals. It is one of my photographic joys. But it's a process. No single image that I can take SOC that will accomplish what I envision when I shot. From taking to printing, it's an integrated chain of actions to produce the image for me. Most of my time is spent place after the shutter is clicked.

I agree with E. L.'s analysis, several pages back, as to what's processed and what is not. I also agree with his basic philosophy. Your image, your decision. Go for it.

Irwin

Jimmy T Loc: Virginia

Like many UHH members have stated before, I enjoy the entire process.
Time permitting, I like to scout locations, plan the shoot, and take pics from many different angles, distances, exposures (M, AV, TV, ISO, Flash, etc.), times of day, night, seasons.
For grab shots, I like fast shutter speeds with variable f-stops, ISO's, and occasionally direct, bounce, or even flash.
As far as PP I really enjoy "saving" a pic that was fleeting and couldn't be duplicated.
The whole experience makes me . . .
Smile,
JimmyT Sends

47greyfox Loc: on the edge of the Colorado front range

Because I shoot almost exclusively in RAW, some post processing is necessary on all images. Some to meet my objectives require more than others even if in batch. It’s all about what I’m trying to demonstrate or capture or produce…

Lucian Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio

This is another example and this had about 20 layers blended together. My children wanted to make a snow man, late in the season. We did not have much snow, so after trying to make a traditional snowman, we had to settle for a clump of snow, which was all that we could gather from the sparsely spread about snow in the yard.

I suggest that we make this into a snow woman instead and then my daughter wanted her to have a baby snowman, so we just had enough to make that before we ran out of useable snow. It looked terrible with all the bare grass about, so later I began to create a winter scene in which to place the snow woman and baby and the children. This one took a while, but I had great pleasure in creating everything in all the layers.

As an example, the fence was one layer, then the scraggly tree behind it was another layer, then the house was another layer, as was the larger tree by the house. Then the trees on the left were several individual layers and reindeer and sled another. The pathway that goes off behind the snow woman and the trees behind the house were all different layers, plus more.

These are things that I could never have achieved in the old days with film and dark room work. It is this sort of PP work that makes today's technology fun in photography and Post Processing, at least for me. Oh, and it was a lot of effort to learn how to do all this in Photoshop, but for me, time well worth invested.

DJCard Loc: Northern Kentucky

I enjoy both, but being in nature and/or on the street with my camera is more fun. I spend less time in Lr as my camera skills improve. Most of my work in Lr is cropping to remove extraneous things/issues along the edges in to order to better highlight my original intention in the photo, with a little color/light adjustment. I also enjoy the surprise when some cropping and other adjustments turn a mediocre photo into a real “keeper.”

senior techie Loc: Boca Raton Fl

I completely agree. Both are skills with enormous potential and along with that a learning curve that can be challenging. Love a good challenge .

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

Actually, that is true, I have printed Cibachrome too. And one of my wife's uncles back in the day printed 4x5" transparencies to Cibachrome. But I was not looking to state every enounce of processing. I was being general to match the mindlessness of the OP's question.

Bubbee Loc: Aventura, Florida

Me, too! I love the shadows!

Celtis87

Beautifully done. Very creative.