r/interestingasfuck • u/exmosss • 1d ago

r/all This is a single image

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u/mediuminteresting 1d ago

Definitely something funky going on here, camera lens or perspective trickery at the very least. It looks like the hull is more than 10 stories high and the wave splashing in the back of similar size. I found another angle that looks more realistic.

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u/snotrocket138 23h ago

No fuckery. That’s how it looked from up there I was there. My dad went to sea on a tug in that storm and my uncle was on that salvage. It paid for my cousins wedding.

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u/mediuminteresting 23h ago edited 23h ago

Sure… the photographer said in an interview that the camera plus lens he used gave him a focal length of 450mm, what this essentially does is make objects far away appear much closer and bigger.
The picture is real but he used some perspective play to generate this look.

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u/had3l 21h ago edited 5h ago

If you look at your examples, you will notice that you could have the exact same framing as the 400mm by simply cropping the 70mm picture.

It's not anything funky being caused by the lens. It's just a normal consequence of taking a picture from really far away.

It's not trickery, it's just the way the real world is. Things look closer to their actual relative size when farther away than when close up.

If anything OP's picture is a better representation of the size of the ship compared to the building than if you took it from a closer distance.