I tend to like to push things to the point that they're not obviously unbelievable.


With subjects we're familiar with, like people, that's more difficult, and, I think, I keep things on the more accurate side. Less color saturation boost, if any, tone curve adjustments are modest and more lighting-related.


However, if I've got something for which we have no common experience, so long as I'm not actually clipping a color channel, or it's not becoming absurd, I like to push it to make it pop. Not to the point of distracting, but so it's more 'interesting' than if you just looked at it.


Then again, even though it's now calibrated, my laptop monitor changes color balance depending on the altitude of my head, so who knows what other people are seeing...


My CRT calls from the basement....