The documentary nature of a photograph depends less on tools and techniques than it does on their judicious use. Just as traditional photographs can lie, nontraditional photographs can tell the truth. Light changes constantly. Sometimes it changes us and sometimes we change it. With every passing moment marvelous transformations occur.
Reflections splash sprays of light, quilting surfaces in abstraction.
A vast poetry is contained within light. As in music, every moment is a unique performance. I often think of the light ballet many architectural photographers choreograph to get a perfect single recording of light, perhaps with a single exposure, perhaps by many. This need not involve re-contextualization, elimination, or distortion. It can be as simple as re-orchestrating light.