Actually I usually am trying to make it look more "natural" I find that too many of my photos look really dull versus what my eyes see when I'm taking them. I'm using a Canon S2is, I currently have 'vivid' turned on for all my manual shots. I don't really know what it does (ADD has made reading the manual really slow, I'm half way through and I've had it since last spring =)
I just found that I liked my photos better straight off the camera with it on.
If I posted the originals, could you show me how you would play with them?
Here's the quick snap of the crane, there was no setup, I didn't even have my camera out when it stabbed at her. I just think its funny that she looks so scared, and her guy is laughing.
*oh and I didn't change anything in this one besides resize/border, does it look to contrasty as well?