To call the picture on the faked is indicative of ignorance of the photographic process.
And there is a grand canyon’s worth of difference between what Ansel Adams did and journalism. It is like confusing Michelangelo with a caricature artis on the street.
I used Ansls Examples to define...PROCESSED and Unprocessed
In the digital age... far more can be ...and is regularly Processed..in FIne Art Photography.
by faked...I meant...simply Modified...the lighter image was not given the same processing sequence..as the more well known Darker..Higher Contrast Image.
In Ansels Day it was done in the Darkroom....today its done in Adobe Lightroon and Adobe Photoshop.
Ansel was a fan of those new fangled Scanners...when we last heard from him
Any of his images...digitally processed would be utterly stunning.
Not to slight his “eye nut he was the master of the darkroom