More on FAQ #409

  • What if I like to set my photos apart from other photographers’ photos by using super-long exposures so that things are unrecognizably blurred or invisible?

    Or what if I like to stand apart by applying a distinctive tonality through my unique recipe of post-exposure changes?

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    Then you’ll probably have to choose between making photographs that look the way you like them vs. making TTG-qualified photos.

    Advanced photographers routinely face that choice.

  • TTG allows for a remarkable diversity of styles...

    The evidence is the wide variety in the 100 famous photographers list and in the “Photos of the Week” linked to the Photos page.

    Whom should I ask for a second opinion about whether my photo qualifies as TTG?

  • . . . but TTG was never intended for every photographer

    There is never any expectation that everyone should be making TTG-qualified photographs.

    Once they decide they don’t need for their photos to qualify as TTG, photographers can express any personal preferences and “style” they want.

  • No one can have it both ways

    What anyone does to their own photos is up to them, but no one can do whatever they want to a photo and then expect the result to be trusted as much as others’ photos are.

    Most photographers who pride themselves on making photos with a distinctive “look” are effectively acknowledging that their photographs do not depict “what the camera lens saw” in a way that would meet rinairs—

    —and making TTG photos     is presumably not a priority for those photographers.