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• abbreviations used on this website

 

• accident, things that were done by

 

• accuracy

 

• adding and deleting are treated equally

 

• AI creep

 

• AI-generated content (AI-GC)

 

• AI-generated content (AI-GC)

 

• aigmented photographs

 

• aiueo

 

• allowable changes to TTG photographs

 

• analog photography

 

• animal hide markings

 

• animal photographs

 

• arbiter

 

• arbitrary

 

• are not what they appear to be, photographs that

 

• arranged/set-up scenes

 

• art

 

• artificial lighting, including flash

 

• artificial motion blur

 

• atmospheric effects


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• background, post-exposure blurring of

 

• background, post-exposure removal of

 

• background, replacing a photograph’s

 

• banding

 

• barrel distortion correction

 

• beams of light, visible

 

• black-and-white

 

• blemishes

 

• blending exposures

 

• blogger

 

• blown-out backgrounds

 

• blur

 

• blur, motion

 

• blur, panning- or camera-shake-induced

 

• bokeh

 

• brightness adjustments

 

• burning

 

• byjacking


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• camera

 

• camera shake

 

• canvas size, decreasing (see #6)

 

• captive-animal photographs

 

• catchlights reflected in eyes

 

• changes allowed in TTG photographs

 

• characteristics of trusted photographs

 

• checking content

 

• chromatic aberration (see #4)

 

• circumstances

 

• colors, changes/corrections to

 

• combining successive exposures

 

• common wishes

 

• composites

 

• compressing proportions

 

• computational photography

 

• context

 

• contract vs. non-contract publishers

 

• contrails in the sky

 

• contrast levels

 

• contraswing, contratilt

 

• controlled conditions, photographs made under

 

• copies of non-TTG photographs (see #203)

 

• copying and pasting elements within the same photograph

 

• corner/edge darkening (842-845)

 

• correcting incorrect exposure

 

• correcting lens distortions (see #4)

 

• correcting perspective

 

• cropping (see #6)

 

• “cross-processing” color effects

 

• cut-out backgrounds


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• darkroom changes vs. digital changes

 

• dark-frame subtraction

 

• decreasing Canvas Size (see #6)

 

• deleting

 

• deleting and adding are treated equally

 

• depth of field

 

• desaturation

 

• digital changes vs. darkroom changes

 

• digital bokeh

 

• digital dilemma

 

• digital era

 

• digital manipulation

 

• digital noise (see #4)

 

• digital photograph

 

• dirt/dust/lint removal

 

• doctored

 

• dodging

 

• double exposures

 

• drone photographs

 

• duplicating elements

 

• dynamic range


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• EXIF data

 

• exposure, ending an

 

• exposure, correcting incorrect

 

• exposures, combining multiple

 

• exposures, long


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• facial blemishes

 

• “fake”

 

• film era

 

• film photograph

 

• film-think

 

• fireworks

 

• fixed image

 

• flare

 

• flash

 

• flash-induced “redeye”

 

• flashing paper

 

• flopping

 

• fokeh

 

• focal-length blending

 

• focus

 

• focus maximized

 

• focus stacking

 

• foreground, post-exposure blurring of

 

• forms and shapes

 

• fountains and waterfalls

 

• freckles


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• ghost objects

 

• God beams, car headlight beams in fog, etc.

 

• graffiti

 

• grain/noise (see #4)

 

• graphics/words/logos printed on photos

 

• gross misexposure

 

• guaranteeing TTG


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• HDR

 

• highlight detail

 

• holy grail

 

• hot/faulty pixels (see #4)


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• “IC” alerts

 

• Image resizing (see #2)

 

• image stabilization

 

• inapparent circumstances

 

• increasing Canvas size (see #2)

 

• ineligible photographs

 

• information-reportage standards

 

• infrared

 

• invisible, moving items rendered


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• lens/camera anomalies

 

• lens flare effects

 

• light beams that appear as forms and shapes

 

• light falloff and vignetting (see #842-845)

 

• lighting effects

 

• lighting painting

 

• “light-related” aspects

 

• lightning

 

• limitations of the medium

 

• lint, removing depictions of

 

• literacy, photographic

 

• litter

 

• “Live” image

 

• long exposures

 

• logos and graphics printed on photographs


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• “making” vs. “taking” a photograph

 

• manipulation

 

• merging photographs

 

• minor vs. major

 

• mirror, images taken in a

 

• misexposure

 

• misrepresentation

 

• moire (see #4)

 

• moles on the subject’s skin

 

• moment

 

• monochrome

 

• monosite

 

• moon changes

 

• most-widely trusted photographs in the world

 

• motion blur

 

• motion photos

 

• moving things around in a photo

 

• multiple exposures, combining

 

• multiple scenes within one image

 

• myths


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• negative film

 

• neighboring frames

 

• night photographs

 

• “nonfiction” comparison

 

• non-“light”-related aspects

 

• non-optically generated

 

• non-optical bokeh

 

• not just about how it looks anymore

 

• the “not” sentence construction

 

• noise (digital) [see #4]


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• objective (adjective)

 

• online photo commentator

 

• optically generated

 

• optically plausible

 

• opt-in vs. opt-out

 

• orchestrated/set-up/staged scenes

 

• overexposure

 

• overhead power lines


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• panning

 

• panorama

 

• perspective

 

• perspective correction

 

• a photograph (noun)

 

• photographer

 

• photographic literacy

 

• photo-illustration

 

• photo-like image

 

• photo publisher

 

• Photoshop

 

• pincushion distortion correction

 

• pixels, defective (see #4)

 

• plaigi

 

• portrayal

 

• posed photographs

 

• post-checked content

 

• post-exposure changes

 

• pre-checked content

 

• pre-exposure

 

• presentation

 

• publish

 

• purple fringing (see #4)


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• rainbows

 

• real

 

• realistic

 

• reality

 

• recognizable

 

• record

 

• redeye

 

• reflections in the scene photographed

 

• removing things from photographs

 

• removing vs. inserting elements

 

• reshaping

 

• resizing

 

• reversing images, post-exposure

 

• rinairs

 

• rise/shift

 

• rotating (see #7)


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• sasibe

 

• satode

 

• satode-challenging subjects

 

• saturation

 

• scene

 

• scratches, removal of

 

• selective resizing within a photograph

 

• self-facing camera

 

• selfie

 

• sensor dirt

 

• set-up scenes

 

• shadows

 

• shadow detail

 

• sharpening (see #8)

 

• shift/rise

 

• shutter

 

• simulations of pre-exposure effects

 

• single-exposure, undoctored photographs

 

• skin blemishes

 

• sky, replacing

 

• slow shutter speeds

 

• SMP effects

 

• social media

 

• softening / blurring

 

• sooc

 

• source

 

• spotting (darkroom or digital)

 

• staged scenes

 

• standalone camera

 

• star tracker

 

• still-lifes

 

• stitching

 

• straight-out-of-[the]-camera (SOOC)

 

• straight photography

 

• stretching a photograph vertically or horizontally

 

• strictest common denominator

 

• strobe use

 

• stroboscopic motion photography effect

 

• studio photographs

 

• subject manipulation

 

• subjective

 

• subtracting vs. adding

 

• surface flaws

 

• swing, tilt


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• tattoos

 

• third-party photo publisher

 

• tilt/swing

 

• tones and colors

 

• TOZ (TTG-only zone)

 

• trust

 

• trust chain

 

• trust-driven photo publisher

 

• trust equation

 

• trust exchange

 

• trust test

 

• trusted photographs

 

• TTG button

 

• TTG challenge

 

• TTG-IC label

 

• TTG-ineligible images

 

• TTG label

 

• TTG-only zone (TOZ)

 

• TTG photograph

 

• TTG photographer

 

• TTG-qualified

 

• TTG-ready publisher

 

• ttg.photos

 

• typically-wild animals


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• unaltered

 

• unchecked content

 

• underexposure

 

• undoctored

 

• uninterrupted exposure

 

• unmanipulated

 

• unrecognizable

 

• UOI (unique online identity)


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• variances in monochrome color tone

 

• view

 

• vignetting and light fall-off (see #842-845)

 

• vlogger

 

• VUO


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• waves in bodies of water

 

• waterfalls and fountains

 

• weather effects

 

• “what the camera lens saw”

 

• white balance

 

• wild animals

 

• words printed on photographs

 

• wrinkles

 

• writing with light


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• zoo animals

 

• zooming during the exposure

 

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