Didital photography is improving all the time. Today however, taking a picture with a digital camera is just the half of it. Film pictures could always be improved in the darkroom, with digital they can be improved in the lightroom, i.e. 'the computer'. When a photographer is faced with not-ideal lighting conditions, such as a dull church or hotel room you adjust the settings of the camera to give you the best results, as you always did with film. Often the results would still need some post processing. Professional Digital photographers shoot in a format called RAW. Many adjustments can be made with Raw software to improve a picture,
not to make it into something it isn't, but to make it into a picture that was seen. The picture can than be further improved by using a program such as Adobe Photoshop or Apple Aperture.
I have just purchased some new software to improve skin tones, which I have found difficult to do in Photoshop. Hope you dig the result!
