1705. TTG says that it is “impossible” for any two-dimensional photograph to depict any three-dimensional scene exactly as the camera saw it, thanks to “limitations of the medium.”

But since exact depiction is impossible — that is, since no photo can perfectly represent a three-dimensional scene —

how does TTG decide which “imperfect” representations are allowable and which ones disqualify the photo from TTG?

In a word, rinairs, because the sources of that standard are the world’s largest providers of trusted photographs.

For decades those news organizations have dealt countless times every day with all of those limitations of the medium that keep photographs from “perfectly representing” the scene depicted.

rinairs is also the arbiter of TTG's Allowable Changes

See also #1703 and #1704