How much?

[Roody262]

How many of your images do you adjust? and by how much? do you just play with the level and saturation etc? I'm always concious of not making my pictures look fake and sometimes i don't know how far to go with the adjustments.

Dan

 

[tomstorey]

Out of say 100 RAW images downloaded on a weekly photo-shoot I will only process a couple for my web gallery or to print at 18" x 12". My aim is for minimal PP after RAW development as I try, but do not always succeed, to get it right in camera. I try not to crop if I am printing because I do not want to throw away original pixels. Perhaps a slight Lab colour boost then a medium contrast in Curves then Flatten and a Focal Blade sharpen.
There are times however, when I want to play with an image so then it's anything goes and God help the image!

 

[mho]

Its all relevant to what you want to do with the image, on one extreme you may like the image straight from the camera, and another you may have been wanting colour saturation like on Fuji Velvia film so they will be processed by quite differing amounts.

 

[Rhodese]

Like mho says its all relative you are in charge it’s your image and if it’s not what you visualized at the shoot try to make it as near as you can. Photography is as much about interpretation as it is about record and always has been, whether you dodge and burn , merge two negs or slides, cross process in the darkroom or do similar in Photoshop its all the ART of photography, go for it.
“Go forth and develop.”