Well, some people have all the equipment, time and money to set up a shot perfectly... I'm thinking about the perfect lights, reflectors, filters, metering instruments and so on. Chances are the resulting shots will not need any postwork... For the rest of us, at least a percentage of the shots will require postwork... to bring out the shadows, or contrast, or colors... I see this as a necessary step (but not always); I don't see much sense in not trying to enhance a shot if you have the chance to do so. The discussion about doing all the necessary work before or after the shooting doesn't make much sense to me. So, of course I do postwork, if I can enhance the image... because I don't have the necessary equipment to do it before the shooting. Another note: I expressly set up my camera preferences with later postwork in mind: in-camera sharpness, contrast and saturation are all set very low (at minus 2 ot 3), and I usually underexpose my images by -0.7 stops exposure compensation, so that the camera doesn't loose any detail in the extremes. I can always bring those details out later on. And yes, I used to develop and print my photos in the pre-digital era..; 'doodling' was just an integral part of the process, even then...

We do not see things as they are. ǝɹɐ ǝʍ sɐ sƃuıɥʇ ǝǝs ǝʍ