Like many photographers, I sometimes post-process my photographs to bring out a color or a shade or detail. Photography has changed so much, the camera does so much of the thinking the photographer used to do.  The new software does a lot more. The photographer can mostly take pride from composition and eye, rich colors are now easy to get.

Post-processing can also be an art, I love my time alone with a photograph, touching them up here and there.

I still find, though that natural light, the sun in the morning or the afternoon, does the best post-processing, better than any hot new software. The world is democratizing, almost anyone can take a good photograph, inexpensively and quickly. But something lost also, when the photographer has little more to do than touch a shutter.

I think no software can match this late afternoon light falling on a brick (from Mr.Blockhead) by my office window. It is a special kind of light, I have never seen a computer process match it. Photographer’s light is the best post-processing I know of.