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No photo is a “straight out of camera shot”. When dealing with film, you make decisions about how to develop the film, print it, etc. You can make dramatically different results from the same latent image.Sure, and additionally some decisions will be made for you depending on the underlying technology (e.g. film chemistry).
By "straight out of camera shots", the person I'm quoting meant a natural or realistic style, where images accurately (if not perfectly) represent what the scene looked like when the photographer took the picture. That absolutely doesn't mean "boring" — photos don't have to be over-manipulated or -stylized to be thrilling.