It's so easy to throw a photo on Photoshop or even Instagram and turn an average photo to look pretty neat. Sure, that makes a photo look good but I believe in the raw image. I'm no professional with a camera but I believe the true photographer can take an image and make it blow your face off with no editing programs. This, of course, requires a lot of knowledge in what aspects of working the camera affect each other. Even if you have that knowledge you still need to point the damn thing in the right direction at the right time. All my photos on here are taken straight from the camera (gee, that explains how shit they are) as I can't stand editing a photo. I don't like taking pictures of posers either as it feels so fake to me (unless the person is in that kind of drunkily happy mood then it's a nice pose).
In the end we must face reality and make the most of it.