atmospheric/weather effects

A TTG photograph can depict any atmospheric/weather effects (rain, fog, snow) that were present at the moment the photograph was recorded.

However, a photograph is always disqualified from P7 — and from TTG — if it misrepresents the appearance of the scene.

A photograph is disqualified from TTG if it undergoes the post-exposure introduction (by any means) of weather effects that were not present during the exposure.

This is the case regardless of how and when the misrepresentation was introduced to the photograph, and regardless of whether the result “looks exactly like” it would have looked had the weather effects been present when the photograph was recorded.

See also the brief on “seen vs. simulated” and the list of rationales that don’t matter.