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[quote user="Brunton"]For what it's worth, here's how I see (ouch!) "altered" versus "non-altered" images:An altered image is one that you cannot reproduce for the eye in real time, whereas a non-altered image you could.Taking Charlie's example - his first photo would qualify as a non-altered image, since he could place the elements such that the eye could see what his photo shows (cropping does not count as an alteration, since every photo is already a cropped version of what your eye sees - except maybe for some fisheye lenses).Added smoke, steam, and even headlights falls into the altered category, since you could not reporduce that in real time in a way that looks realistic (the way smoke curls, rises, etc does not scale).Added sky, or even digitally removed walls are an alteration, but use of a protable sky backdrop is not, since at any time you can place the sky backdrop behind the scene and reproduce physically what the camera saw.Just my perspective.[/quote]Exactly. I have a photo of my layout looking towards the aisle where there's a real physical portable backdrop. Would I consider this an altered image? No.
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