Capturing a lense flare that isn't put in after with photoshop is a photography phenome thats awesome to see, its part of how the camera works, and is captured....... but I wont debate on that point.

PJZ99 Ha haha!  Yes I've seen some "attempts" at postworking and retouching and alterations so bad........ i just sit there in awe like.... no offense but we've all thought it....."someone really thought this was a good effect?"

I've seen good renders, renders that, seriously left me dumbfounded as to why it was created in the first place....... again, eyes going to the laws of nature and physics half the time....

Henceforth, I throw my own final thoughts on this matter.  Yes I love postwork.  I adore it, though some go mentally insane (and innane!) with it, on the whole, its a gift to me...... a sheer treasure I relish.  Why?  I'm glad you asked!

After "trying out the latest daz item" at about the fifty trillionth time,  I dont care how good the image is....... I've seen it.  Would you watch a rerun of the jeffersons as many times as you see the same figures?  Probably not.  Those that "Postwork" it or paint their own hair, yay!!!!  My eyes TINGLE at the new sensation that greets them! LOL.

So for reitteration....... Koz Hair, the MFD in all its disguises, eyes with no depth and blank stares..... you get the idea.   If people can render those out great, wonderful and i've seen good stuff, but trouble is, after seeing it rendered out BEAUTIFULLY oh.......... how many times? It gets old fast.

Since no one can afford the amount of money it would cost to have oodles of stuff in their folders to have new eyecandy in EVERY picture they post....... i say yay for postwork.