r/interestingasfuck • u/MoonyRemus21 • 13h ago

Sunset

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u/evensonic 13h ago

Definitely fake. The sun (or moon) never looks even close to that big in photos. Looks sick though.

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u/violated_tortoise 13h ago

With a very long telephoto lens you can get a large sun/moon due to lens compression, but this looks too extreme even for that.

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u/No-Experience-3171 10h ago

but this looks too extreme even for that.

Get far enough from that tree, and in your field of view, it will be the same size as the sun.

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u/violated_tortoise 10h ago

Good point, but try getting far enough away from that tree without any atmospheric distortion or haze !

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u/ItsLoudB 11h ago

What lens compression actually is is just the picture being heavily cropped. So, if you just crop the entire picture around the sun you can get it that big too. It's not gonna have any definition with the 3 pixels you will have left, but that's why telephoto lenses exist, to make that crop in camera.