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I think photography has always been about artistry. You are taking a 2-dimensional slice of a 4-dimensional world. Interpretation is inherent.

Ansel Adams was surely no stranger to post-processing.

https://photofocus.com/photography/a-look-inside-ansel-adams...

There is a difference between normal post-production (cropping, defining colors, adjusting brightness, removing noise, ...) and adding details that just aren‘t there in the raw image.

How so?

One involves geometric meaning (e.g. edges, Bayer artifacts, clipped highlights), and the other involves semantic meaning (e.g. sky, faces, eyes). Dodging and burning is in the latter category and is equally deceptive.

Noise removal isn't semantic meaning?

It’s also very useful to be able to take a tighter crop of an existing image without worrying about pixelation

That was true of film photography and development too