Is photography 50% capture, 50% post processing?

Brian Auer recently conduct a little experiment that produced fascinating results. He posted the above photograph and invited people to edit and upload their results. Even though the original photo was pretty mediocre, the edited photos were remarkable.

Brian believes that this affirms his belief: Photography is 50% capture and 50% post processing. I do believe that post processing plays a part in photography today. But 50/50? I’m not so sure.

There are several photographers that I know of who can produce great out-of-camera photographs. Personally, I try to do as little editing to my photos as possible too.

Head over to Brian’s blog and check out the results!