There are books written about how to succeed in marketing yourself as a photographer...but I do not see how that answers the original question.
I do not either understand why Mcdonalds or drugdealing was brought into the discussion.
Bad taste or good taste could be debated without anyone being able to define which is which.
The cost for producing art has very little to do with the price of art, except for in some cases (cost for gold or similar) where the material might be reused for something else. If your production cost exceeds the price people will pay, you either have to lower your costs or go out of business.
But, the original question was if a color photograph would gain a higher price if it was perceived as unmanipulated.
As I said, I think a photograph should be unmanipulated, otherwise you are selling an image or possibly art.
If the buyer is not interested in buying a 'photograph', but merely looking for an image, they might not care how it was done.
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