No reason to be sorry and in fact you were correct for the most part in recording digital images properly to get the most information. That is true if you wanted to work from that. For some reason I can not get sometimes what I like by sometimes being true and pure with my S1. Nailing shots and then try and achieve certain looks in PS is harder for me with the techniques I use. Maybe if I knew more techniques in PS to achieve the same results but then the purist in me says that is cheating. LOL
Frankly I don't care how an image got there, because an image will speak for itself no matter how it got there. It is when photographers apply techniques and boast great photography skills vs great PS or lab skills or really change the appearance of a model.
You know? Ansel Adams was a much better Dark Room Artist then I think he ever was a photographer. I will get killed for that but what I mean is he knew how to photograph and then he knew how to take it to the lab to the finish product. He set everything up with the intentions of taking it to the lab.
Again, don't be sorry for your original comments. That holds true and my comments was not to mislead yours but rather a simple statement of how I achieve what I am achieving these days. Good or bad from my colleagues critiques, I somewhat like what I am doing otherwise I would not keep doing it.
J T