> post-processing is more common with digital for the serious amateurs and professionals Yes... and kind of no? Many professionals can only make a living by be

> post-processing is more common with digital for the serious amateurs and professionals Yes... and kind of no? Many professionals can only make a living by being very efficient, so it's a combination of planning the shoot and getting each picture right before pressing the shutter button, and batch applying one-click standard presets that they have developed. So post-processing, but of a kind similar to film and paper selection in the film days, where you would choose a particular film and/or paper brand for your images. The amateurs I've seen fall into two camps. One spends a long time in post. (This seems to go with obsessing about gear.) The other group would rather be out there taking photos and tries to mininise post-processing effort like the pros do. They'd rather spend 40 hours learning how to light their subject than 40 hours in their software. For competition or gallery photos, of course, yes. Sometimes many hours or days on a single image.