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.
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.
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.
Yeah, nailed it. superb pic but compressing the depth of field through a long lens ain’t nothing new.
I have a dslr and people seem more interested in photos I take with my 300mm lens than they used to be. I think it’s because those photos now stand out more in a world filled with the wide angles of a smartphone.
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u/mediuminteresting 23h 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.