It's how sensor and post-processing play together. You probably won't enjoy the look that is coming straight out of camera (ordinary and ugly), so an artistic l

It's how sensor and post-processing play together. You probably won't enjoy the look that is coming straight out of camera (ordinary and ugly), so an artistic license is applied in "cooking" colors, noise removal, sharpening, remapping of light dynamic range etc. to make it look better. If you do pro photography, you might be amused how much artificial some photos look straight out of camera, especially if you are using off-camera flashes; sometimes you get candy-like photos with accentuated edges that look unnatural, but that comes straight out of camera in the RAW file already.