Way back when digital cameras came out, I was seeing most people come into my workshops with their new digital cameras.

I would tell them that it isn't the job of the camera to post process your images for you.  It just captures what you feed into it and gives you something to work with as you go into your post processing program, whether that be Photoshop, Lightroom, Smart Photo Editor, Nik Software, Topaz, or any of the other post processing programs that are available.

In those early days of digital, I would understand that not everyone was aware that they had to post process the images, and I got that.

Here we are so many years into digital photography and still there are people in my workshops that are not using any post processing and saying to me their images don't look that good.

As I said, it's not cameras job to post process your images for you.

If you don't have any software yet, get on it, and buy something and start learning and practicing your post processing skills.

You will be so much happier with your images, after they are post processed.

I do the "Before and After" posts here on my blog, and you can see what comes out of the camera is not pretty, but they sure are pretty once I do my post processing.