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Answering Eric's points I tend to think that it is a question of content.
Removing distractions is fine, adding new backgrounds/compositing is not.
However who am I to judge if it pleases the taker/poster
I confess I have merely tarted up photos in recent times...but not from a feeling it was wrong to go further. I am simply being lazy.
I however don't think it's wrong to replace detail. Infra red photos are heavily edited to get the results. I've never had anyone say they are contrived and unreal.....because they ARE inherently unreal. We use HDR and selective masking for sharpness, noise reduction, adding dof lens blur and who knows what else. I don't see that as interfering with the subject....merely enhancing it with respect to its surroundings. So why not change the perch or even the background?
Like I said, of late I have been trying to get it good enough in the camera to use 'as is'. But I have some cracking long tail tit shots...bathing and drinking in a concrete water bath which Graham tells me would be 'marked down' in a competition for not being natural enough. I could set up an infinity pool with moss covered stones for a more natural look. But that's surely no different to redoing the setting in PS.
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Eric