I think just like film photographers like ansel adams spent more than 75% of their time in the darkroom adjusting exposure, playing with proper lighting all alterations to get the images just right, digital photography shouldnt require camera only output to be considered quality work.
look at 99% of photo work thats hanging in museums, and its all edited somehow. It is a matter of bringing images to life. Movies are all color edited, certain colors bring out certain moods/emotions, others are too dull. I'm sure we've all seen what a handheld movie looks like, and how dull the colors are, and the frame rate etc is junk...then we watch movies and dont question the reality of the coloring....its NOT just a better camera...its a whole process of coloring that brings images to life as we think we see them.
we perceive scenes differently than we can directly photograph them, adjusting the images to be in line with a vision or emotion is hardly against the basic rules of art
