Scene

The “scene” depicted in a photograph is defined by TTG as “the specific arrangement of everything visible in the camera’s view at any particular instant.”

In requiring one “specific arrangement that occurred during exposure,” P4 of the Trust Test ensures that every TTG photograph depicts only one “scene.”

• Anything framed by the camera during the exposure — from still-lifes to people to buildings to scientific closeups made through microscopes to photographs of entire galaxies in the night sky — qualifies as “the scene.”

• Any subject that has motion in it or that undergoes changes will constantly constitute new “scenes” at different points in time.

• However, with P4’s allowance for depicting genuine motion blur, TTG permits portraying “scenes that are changing into different scenes” as long as the result looks like a single-exposure, undoctored photograph.

For more, see the brief on satode and see the FAQ on P4.