My dad was looking through my photos on the computer today. He found some great sunset shots with amazing colors. He asked me if i edit them to get better colors and quality. I said yes i do.

Then we talked about what especially sunset photography is. Everyone can take a "bad" sunset photo with no colors and then edit it with Brightness/Contrast, Levels or Curves to make amazing colors. He said that its like "false" photos. I understood him. I mean, it isnt a original photo if its manipulated to get better colors or something. (Its only sunset photos i talk about, so dont hang me up on this one )

Like this one:

Amazing photo with amazing colors. And its unedited! So you can get great color shots without use any kind of editing.

I dont try to say that photographers who are editing their photos to get better results is bad photographers. I just think a sunset photo can be amazing without a lot of tuning in Photoshop or any other photo edit program. Just think about it?