>>3982510for me it's capturing exactly how it felt to be there. when I'm developing the shots the RAW images usually feel nothing like it, so I just adjust the exposure and usually some colour until it looks right. especially important with long exposure night shots where the eye sees very little colour but the camera does and it looks all wrong straight out of the sensor
sometimes years after the fact I'll show the photos to my friends and they seem to get the same feels again so that's neat