My view of the world

Dave Johnson’s Digital Focus has a photo contest every month that appears in PC World.

This month my favorite had this in the photographer’s comments:
“I added the water afterwards in Photoshop using the Flaming Pear Flood filter.”

I know that a certain amount of manipulation is normal, be it in the darkroom or on the computer, but when you add entirely new feature such as water, where there was none, it changes the “reality” of the so-called photograph entirely. Shouldn’t it then fall into a category other than the one used by photographers using unaltered photos? And where do you draw the line?

Here’s a small version of what I’m discussing.

For the full picture go here.

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