314. What if I don’t think ANY photograph can ever be a perfect representation of a three-dimensional scene?

Then you’re in the right place: your perspective is the same as TTG’s.

This website points out on numerous pages that no two-dimensional photograph can ever be a perfect representation of a three-dimensional scene the way humans see the scene.

Limitations of the medium make that impossible.

But . . .

. . . to say that “no photograph can be a perfect representation” is not the same as saying “all photographs are misrepresentative.”

Literally billions of those “imperfect representations” are not considered by their creators — or by their audience, or by rinairs — to be “misrepresentative.”

See also #326, which instead of the term “representations” uses the term “portrayals.”*

Of course, plenty of photographs are considered to be “misrepresentative” by reasonable people, so the Trust Test includes P7 to have rinairs help sort out which photographs are which.

*Because the word “representation” has so many meanings in English — representation in the national legislature, representation in court — the word “portrayal” is often substituted for it on this website except on pages (like this one) that specifically connect the term “representation” to “misrepresentation.”