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Originally Posted by Por_sha911

Why do so many photographers insist on pushing the saturation to such unnatural levels? The photos look fake.
The digital enhancements are the auto-tune of the photography world and are a substitute for the talent needed to capture the photo with proper settings.

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Agreed, it's too common today for folks to bump the saturation to levels that look unnatural, and often greatly dim the impact of the photo in my eye.

I will often make some changes, sharpness, saturation, contrast, exposure in post processing, but there's a limit. Most devices incorporate enhancements to saturation and sharpness when pics are jpg. I shoot (with my camera) in raw to leave that up to me. I try to make the pics look like I thought they looked by eye when I took the pic.

And similar enhancements were made on film when that was a thing. But like I said, a lot of folks, in my opinion, go way too far. It's like a lot of the "filters" that folks apply to themselves in selfies.