75% of my photos are post-processing. case in point:

perfectly fine photo. i shoot aperture priority in my camera in RAW so as much color information is maintained as possible. i figure my cam’s a sophisticated piece of equipment; let it do most of the work.
then i pull it into p-shop’s RAW editor, which *swoon*
up the saturation, contrast, lower the highlights, bring out the red in the tree on the right, and voila.