Gene51 wrote:
And how many are fully invested in the notion that raw has no value, and really have no clue what "getting it right" in the camera really means, and that SOOC is the only way to shoot and truly reflects a photographer's talent. However, you seem to have a leg up on this. Can you explain what "getting it right in the camera" means? Can you provide an example or two?
I spend a lot of time shooting "impossible" scenes with difficult lighting. Here is an example of how SOOC often doesn't cut it. This just an illustration on exposure and SOOC limitations, taken outside my front door, so I'll save you the time making comments about composition - the composition sucks. Anyway, you have a choice of several images to look at where you can explain exactly which one is the best example of what "getting it right in the camera" is. One has ok sky but awful foreground. The last has a blown out sky and better, but not good foreground. Then there is the last image where I used a raw capture and a little adjustment to make the image.
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Your last sentence says it. You 'captured a photo' then using adjustments you 'made an image'.