good article, now ,as a newb to photography, if I may be arrogant to give my 5 cents....

What is photography?? Is it the true representation of a scene, whether that scene was created by yourself or not?? Or does it lend itself more to art, in which you take the scene and give it your individual twist?

There are 2 types of photography, Documentation and Art. 

Documentation is a straight photograph, with no manipulation other than cropping i suppose. The photographer may set up the scene. They may move things around to create a better asthetic. They may even ask you to say "Cheese" to reinforce, or add, the happiness to an occasion. But once that shutter has done its thing, the image has documented that scene. The image is set in its content and meaning. As soon as a coloured filter is applied, or the shadows are darkened to add that special feeling, the photographer has left the realm of photography and entered the realm of artist. The photographer has imposed their will upon the image, distorting its original content.

Art is a image that has been taken beyond the mundanity of reality. Into the realm of how we think it should look, not how it does look. The photographer may have added a higher saturation of green to some nature photos, they may have darkened the blue of some skies. These are their interpretations of how it should have looked. Interpretation is art. Once the decision has been made that the green isn't green enough, or the sun was too bright that day, lower the exposure, then the image is not true of what the camera tells us.

To me, photography is the capture and manipulation of light. It is Art.  My canvas is the monitor, my paint is the pixel and my brush is my mouse.

As to right or wrong, I don't see how either really exists. Art is art. Whether it is five thousand nude people in front of parliament house, or a dozen blenders in a row filled with water and one live goldfish each (this really happened, 5 of the goldfish were "blended" in the 1st week by curious gallery visitors wondering if the blenders were plugged in, lol), it will please some and won't please others.

In my humble opinion, 99% of photography we see is Art, not that that is a bad thing, and art is never right or wrong. Art just is.