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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 117863" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>Depends on the purpose/intent of the person doing the manipulation and your definition of photograph.  In its purest sense I would say that the minute you introduce anything that wasn't captured by the camera, or alter the nature of the light that was (i.e. color shift, but not necessarily HDR) then it is no longer a photograph in that purest sense.  What it becomes is a function of the intent.  It is no longer a photograph from a journalistic perspective, but it certainly is from an artistic perspective.  A photograph as an artistic work allows for a nearly infinite set of manipulations while retaining the definition of a "photograph", or at least a "photographic work".</p></blockquote><p></p>