Hmm ... good raw work is essential for bad starting material can't be saved by postwork. But what's wrong about doing some postwork? There's lot's of scissorhands out there ;). As stated here (by enax?), it'll be best to do the composing on site, but all to often, there's some cropping to do afterwards. Does cost some resolution, but it depends on what you'd like to do with the pic if this could be a problem or not. In any other aspect .. it depends (me thinks g). Trying to sell a pic as a postcard for example, i'd do any postwork i feel is needed. The same applies in the galeries here, where i'd like to have opinions on the picture as i want it to be (postworked or not). Doesn't matter if this is done via a perfect shot or via more or less postwork. Sometimes, postwork is even necessary to do things, which cannot be done any other way. Of course, if e.g. it is a pic for a challenge, one must say if it's raw or not and i do agree, that it'd be a nice challenge once, to do something without any postwork. But that's just my noob-thinking. I'm very interested in your (and any other) optinion. :)