506. What’s to keep a photographer from making “light”-related changes to accomplish deceptive non-“light”-related changes (like making things disappear) and then labeling the result as TTG?

P7 is there to prevent that.

The fact that TTG doesn’t spell out which “light”-related changes are allowed (see #505) doesn’t mean that TTG photographers can make any “light”-related changes they want.

• If the result does not meet rinairs — for example, if the dark areas of the photo are excessively darkened (or light areas are excessively lightened) to make “forms and shapes” in those areas disappear — then the photograph will not meet P7 and cannot qualify for the TTG label.

• Similarly, if when converting a color photograph to b&w/monochrome the photographer filtered out specific hues to make depictions of that color disappear — spray-painted graffiti on a wall, for example — then the result would obviously be disqualified by P7.

All “light”-related changes have to combine to produce a result that meets the rinairs standard in P7 or the photo cannot qualify for the TTG label.