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interesting question. I for my part do quite some post-processing. But also some "pre-processing", meaning I try to set up my lighting as good as possible, before I start to shoot. I use remote flashes (1-2, depending if I shoot indoors or outdoors). But even if you get the lighting good for most of your shots, your model will occasionally move in front of the camera and as your flash usually will be mounted on a tripod it wouldn't keep the exact distance to the model, resulting in over- or underexposure. Even more so if you shoot outdoors, you'll have to take sunlight into account. That's why I shoot my series in RAW format, to be able to do some quick corrections to exposure and color balance and some basic cropping or lense correction. Shooting RAW gives you the chance to "rescue" shots that - at first glance - seem to be over- or underexposed.

After I made a selection of "good" shots from a scene I run those through some hand-crafted Photoshop actions to enhance contrast or color-balance. Usually I do not "over-edit" any shots that are sold on my page but there will be no shot unedited-out-of-the-camera.