I had no idea I was a gen X, but I am in the club 61-80 and I actually LOVE editing, but this is what I have for you, three answers: 1) people who used film cameras, they used to drop their films in labs that automatically enhanced their pictures and delivered them ready on paper. So they are convinced that they saw their pictures as they were on the film. Indeed, an automatic enhancing elaboration was made on them, mostly on contrast, saturation and brightness. But they do not know. So they think that the only picture possible is straight out of the camera, not even enhancing allowed, and for a sense of authenticity and continuity, they do not retouch anything. But it is based on a misconception; 2) people who do not know what to do. They look at their pictures and they either lack a visual education, a creative mindset, or they lack any knowledge of editing programs and out of fear that they will do the wrong thing on their pictures, they rather let that go. So this one is based on a lack of education of some sorts; 3) people who have different philosophical approaches. This is a bit theoretical, but since photography exists, we have two main streams that rarely meet: one is the one that consider photography as a sort of science, or documentation instrument and sees the photograph as a mirror of reality; the other one is an artistic view, where pictorialism found home, that since the very beginning considered photographs as a layer for a more creative work of art. Instead of just documenting reality, it could be used to unleash your own fantasy and sense of creation. Since always, the two streams do not communicate well with each other, and so there are people like I, a gen X that did not even know to be a gen X, but that belong to the pictorialist legacy, that sees an opportunity to endlessly enhance to match a feeling, and edit and create something more than just the thing as it is, and there are people who look at pictures as a way to represent reality that must be left as it is. So this explanation is based on different philosophies at the core bottom of the reasons why the very picture is taken.
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