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I tend to underexpose the shots and enhance the brightness to avoid overexposing (which is way harder to compensate in post). My general workflow is enhancing saturation (RAW files ussually are way to flat). adjust shadow areas, adjust darkness, cropping if I think it would make a better image. The structure slider also can do some unexpected niceness once in a while.
And by the way, thinking editing is not one the most important part being somewhat serious in your photograpy, you'd be delusional. It makes good imaged great, great images suberb.
Just hitting that button one time on a camera is nice and all, and I sure would like to think I'm so extremely talented just one button press makes all my images magic, just because how awesome I am, but just ---
Just for a sunset with a dark foreground for example. Your eyes are better at in taking any scene in, just by how you process contrast with your brain than any camera or sensor. You'd ave way to overexposed sky, or way too dark foreground in your image. Thats not how it really looked. Just getting to how it really looked, will get you to at least know somewhat what you are doing in post. Getting good in post, really is half the work. Don't be fooled by idiots on /p/ that still want to believe they can be awesome with just one button press. That's not how any hobby, including photograpy, works. You need skill, and training and also means doing post. Sorry.
