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Popular photo varieties that are ineligible for TTG

Photographs are considered “TTG-ineligible” if they cannot fully meet the Trust Test no matter how many of TTG’s Allowable Changes are applied.



(The numbers are merely a navigation aid; the ordering is random)


1. Photographs that were recorded contrary to anything in P1-P6 in ways that cannot be corrected using TTG’s Allowable Changes.


2. Photograph-like images that fall under the definition of doctored, aigmented, or plaigi (P1 and P2)


3. Photographs in which any non-TTG-qualified image that looks like a TTG-qualified photo is a primary subject (P8)


4. Panoramas or any other combination of exposures in which the camera was moved between exposures (P3)


5. Photographs showing contraswing/contratilt effects (that is, the effect of making the “focus plane” non-parallel to the “recording plane” in order to defocus prominent areas of the photograph, producing “the toy city” look), regardless of whether those effects were created with the camera or with software (P7)


6. Photographs made with a shape-affecting filter (e.g., prism, kaleidoscope, or other) attached to the front of the lens (P7)


7. Photographs made using the rear swing or tilt movements of a view camera in a way that results in depicting the subject such that it would not meet rinairs for non-misrepresentation (P7)


8. Photographs that show ghost objects or SMP effects that cannot be cropped out (P4)


9. Photographs that depict an appearance that never occurred during exposure (P4)


10. Photographs that have been doctored or aigmented in non-“light”-related respects and in ways that cannot be undone by clicking on “Revert”


11. Photographs that were underexposed or overexposed so extremely that they cannot be corrected to meet rinairs for non-misrepresentation of the scene (P7)


12. Photographs made while zooming the lens during the exposure (P3)


13. Images rendered by electromagnetic waves outside the range of human vision (P1)


14. Photographs made with the sensor’s view (or film’s view) of the scene blocked by a rinairs-incompatible vignetting device or light-falloff arrangement (unless the dark area is cropped out) (P7)


15. Images (including in various motion-picture formats) that do not meet P6’s requirements for a single, fixed, “still” photograph


16. Photographs that do not have anything at all in focus (P7)


17. Photographs made by combining exposures that were not made on the same device (P3)


18. Photographs made by combining exposures that were made with different focal lengths (P3)


19. Photographs made with standalone cameras that combine exposures that were not started within the same single second (P5)


20. Botching film processing so badly that the result could not meet P7


21. Photographs showing the effects of so much movement of the camera (camera shake) or movement of the subject that everything in the photograph is unrecognizably blurred (P7)


22. Photographs made using an exposure so long that objects are less visible than the sasibe standard prescribes (P5)


23. Photographs made with a flaw on the sensor or film that is so large (or located in such a position) that the photograph could not meet rinairs (see P7) even after all of TTG’s Allowable Changes are applied


24. Photographs made using a color filter on the lens (e.g., coffee-colored sky gradient) that produces a result that cannot be corrected enough to meet P7


This list is subject to revision, including additions