Which is more important, photography or later stage?

They should all be important, but the emphasis is different. Photographers are mainly responsible for lighting, composition and exposure. It should be said that the photographer is the premise of good or bad photos.

Later, he was mainly responsible for the color and density of the film, and some even detected the change of the medicine and adjusted the operation of the color enlarger.

But the late stage you said seems to be the late stage of digital design. I think the late stage of digital photography is more difficult than the early stage. The quality of this film is mainly determined by the design in the later stage. So I think the later photography is more critical than the earlier photography.

It should be said that the photographer and his later thoughts should be unified, so that they can be combined into one and create good works.