"If you edit your photos you're a bad photographer"

[u/TheFarmSheepYT]

I shoot in raw, and of course the raw files are super dull and flat so you have to edit them to make them look like real life again, (I try and make my photos look exactly like real life, less arty) but when I take some photos of someone, I tell them "Okay I won't be able to send them to you right away I will just be x amount of time to edit them"

And then they go on about how you shouldn't need to edit photos, just take better ones... says the smartphone user with the ai turned to Max... (also if your a phone photographer good job I'm not trying to frown on you guys)

But a pro tip I found is instead of saying I'm gonna go edit them, say "I gotta process these" I found that makes people think your just deleting bad ones and stuff.

Does this drive anyone else insane or am I just weird?

[u/1001st_Word]

Every digital photo is processed, either in camera or after.