On shooting the moon
Resizing the depiction of the moon (or anything else) within a photograph, by any method, always disqualifies the resulting photograph from TTG.
It’s one of the most common resizing examples performed within photographs.
Anyone who has looked at many travel photos (or travel postcards) has seen them, for almost every tourist destination in the world: a photograph of an enormous moon hovering over a dusk or night cityscape or landscape.
Even though a photograph records the moon as pretty much the same size wherever it is in the sky, when viewed “in person” the moon appears much larger to the human eye when the moon is near the horizon than it appears when it is overhead.
Generations of photographers have been frustrated by the discrepancy caused by this optical illusion, by the difference between “what I know I saw” and “what the camera rendered.”
Making matters worse, most cityscapes and landscapes are photographed with a wide-angle lens, and the more wide-angle the lens used to take a photograph, the smaller the moon will appear in the photograph.
Those frustrated photographers often substitute a larger moon for what the camera rendered in a single exposure, whether they perform the substitution in the darkroom, on the computer, or via a double-exposure in camera.
To the viewer (and to TTG), the “tools” or method used to resize the moon don’t matter: the moon as depicted in the final version of a photograph either does remain the same size relative to the rest of the scene that the camera recorded or it does not remain the same relative size.
No photograph with a resized or inserted moon can ever qualify for the TTG label.