*""What I was trying to say was that the initial creation of the camera is the true photograph.    That can survive minor corrections and still be considered, more or less, the true photograph.   Once more drastic adjustments are made, it may become a work of art, or it may become a train-wreck, but it can no longer legitimately claim to be the "original photograph", or, by extension, a true photograph at all.""

*I can understand your ":opinion" on this when it comes to significant changes - ie photoshop filters what not - but I've taken a few classes on the subject and haven't had an instructor yet who snubbed the idea of fixing flaws. 

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