I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a mediocre photographer. To make up for that though, I am good at post production. (Which is good because I’d be out of work if I wasn’t) This example is a bit of an extreme case of how much things get cleaned up after the fact, but ultimately everything gets some treatment.
You can see this in action in the three post’s before this as well, both the photos and the gif/video were all just shot on an old iPhone 4, then cleaned up after the fact. Huzzah for pushing post!