good glass and post processing

just throwing this out there, i started to wonder, a lot of people have great glass for the color rendering it can output, then do their own post processing that are different than how the lens makes the photo look originally. could this be done with any decent glass if they were going to modify the colors/tones/curves/cr​oss process/etc? or does having good colors from great glass to start off with help? not including sharpness.
do you think good post processing can turn an ok photo with ok composition and ok subject matter into a great one? i'm pretty sure bad/over post processing can make a good photo just ok

If you have great color from the lens, you have more leverage to process how you like it. However, if you have poor color from the start, it's going to be harder to turn that into good color during processing.

john_galt wrote in post #12422292
do you think good post processing can turn an ok photo with ok composition and ok subject matter into a great one? i'm pretty sure bad/over post processing can make a good photo just ok

I don't think you can process an ok image to be spectacular; I believe you need a great image to start with.

Richard Alverado is amazing at turning a good photo into something spectacular.
This thread https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1041457 is typical of what he can do. Check out all his other threads too. You wanna step up your game? Try to do what he does.

Not his best work IMO.

Worth searching him out nonetheless though...

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #12423092
Not his best work IMO.

Worth searching him out nonetheless though...

I was refering to his style and more importantly to answer the OP's question. IMO glass over body, but PP over all.

A digital sensor does not see colors, only intensity of light at three wavelengths. The RAW stage in the data stream does not contain colors, only a record of those intensities. The color is interpolated in later when the jpg (in camera) or jpg/tif/psd (in converter) is processed and rendered. Although the chromatic transmission characteristics of the lens will certainly affect the voltages output by the sensor, the later color interpolation and the profile that relates the numbers to actual colors are far more dominant factors. In other words, there is always processing and it is more important in determining the way the photo looks than the lens' contribution.

All true, more or less, but not really important since the cameras processing is consistent, no matter what lens is mounted. You can't change the camera's internal processing but you can change the lens, therefore, for you and me, the lens is more important to the final output.

With that said, ok composition and ok subject is still that. If you can change the composition and subject in post, all the more power to you but I'd rather not have to start with garbage in. I'm lazy