For me it is all about the final image and/or the print. Since I am not claiming my photos are the literal truth, so all is fair........
When viewing one of my prints I have been asked if I had "photoshopped" it. I try to nicely explain that I find it curious that
they are not interested in the camera model=, type of sensor, settings etc, or how and why I might have changed some tonal values.
To me, from the moment you capture a three dimensional image onto a two dimensional substrate.......its all "photoshopped" to one degree or another.