419. Is that challenge (above) related to the “trustworthiness vs. appearance” choice?

Yes.

No matter what the subject, the surest way to improve a photograph’s appearance is usually going to be by doctoring or aigmenting it—

— not by leaving it largely “as is” so that it qualifies as TTG.

This is common knowledge, which is why, as noted in #610:

“Photographers routinely hope that viewers will think a doctored photograph is undoctored, but that hope rarely goes in the opposite direction:

“Photographers rarely hope that viewers will think an undoctored photograph is actually doctored.”

See also

Brief 11: Why does the public care whether photos are undoctored?

420. If it’s so easy to make TTG photographs, why is it such a challenge to make photographs that are both “TTG-qualified” and “impressive”?