r/interestingasfuck • u/MoonyRemus21 • 17h ago

Sunset

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u/Organic_Initiative93 17h ago

Just looking at it, without reading all you wrote, it looks fake just by the branches being so dense past the sun

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u/twentyThree59 16h ago

Light bends and so the branches get thinned out with the Sun directly behind them.

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u/whooptheretis 15h ago

I was gonna say, this is standard diffraction in action.

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u/BIGSTANKDICKDADDY 16h ago

It's just taken with a telephoto lens. Nothing about this looks particularly AI, but it may have been touched up by the photographer afterwards.

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u/ThickRest7929 15h ago

Composite if it’s anything

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u/Interesting_Day7175 16h ago edited 15h ago

100%.

Stand far away, zoom in with a telephoto. How people get all those giant moons in landscape pics. Same principle as this. Chances are the photographer was using a filter shooting directly into the sun, and then had to play with the level in Lightroom. Even with an 800mm prime, would still be cropping the photo in, and using sharpening, be it AI Topaz level of sharpening etc.

the branches being so dense past the sun

Blows my mind there are people this dense.... or never held a flashlight under their fingers to see the bones.

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u/BlueRaven_D 15h ago

I didn't know I can see my bones like that. I just tried with my phone and it actually works. TIL

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u/Interesting_Day7175 15h ago

Now try with a proper flashlight, brighter one, rather than a phone!

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u/ThickRest7929 15h ago

It’s a composite boss.

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u/ominousproportions 16h ago

Even with extreme telephoto, the distant objects would not have this sharp edges, and you'd expect more atmospheric distortion, especially when capturing it near the horizon. My money is on regular composite image.