Is this another "doctored" Reuters photo?

The boot of an Israeli soldier is seen at the scene after a rocket attack in the Kibbutz of Kfar Giladi near the Israeli-Lebanon border August 6, 2006. Ten Israeli soldiers were killed and at least nine others were wounded when a Hizbollah rocket slammed into a group of reservists in northern Israel on Sunday, medics and Israeli media said. (ISRAEL)

06 Aug 2006 REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Note the puff of smoke rising from the boot. Looks to me as if the photographer placed a cigarette in the boot. Was this done for "dramatic effect"?

From here:

Reuters has strict standards of accuracy that bar the manipulation of images in ways that mislead the viewer.

Does this include the doctoring of photos for dramatic effect?

Here is another by the same photographer, supposedly at the same scene:

The boot of an Israeli soldier is seen at the scene after a rocket attack in the Kibbutz of Kfar Giladi near the Israeli-Lebanon border August 6, 2006. Ten Israeli soldiers were killed and at least nine others were wounded when a Hizbollah rocket slammed into a group of reservists in northern Israel on Sunday, medics and Israeli media said. (ISRAEL)
06 Aug 2006 REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Note how the boot in this second photographed is conveniently balanced atop a wall--who placed the boot there? It certainly didn't land there after the explosion. Again, how far is this photographer willing to go for "dramatic effect"?

Again, I wasn't there when these photos were taken but in the spate of staged photoshoots and doctored photos making their rounds in the MSM lately, who knows?

***UPDATE & Bump****

Perhaps I used the wrong terminology. As John Hinderaker points out at Powerline:

It's important to distinguish between "faking" and "staging." Reuters terminated its relationship with Hajj because two pictures were faked, i.e., digitally altered. It may well be that those are the only faked photos that Hajj submitted to Reuters. But, in my opinion, a great many of his pictures were staged, and, in my judgment, that is the more significant offense.

Agreed. To me, rather than being "faked" or photoshopped, it appears that these photos were more or less staged.


***UPDATE & BUMP****

Now the Associated Press is getting into the act!

See more ridiculously staged photos here.

(Filed under the fifth column)