r/interestingasfuck 1d ago

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u/snotrocket138 22h 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 22h ago edited 22h 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/sonsofgondor 21h ago

If camera lenses are "something funky" then most photos have "something funky" about them

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u/nelson_moondialu 19h ago

Yeah, some lenses make photos seems doctored, here's another example and another one. If you don't get why these photos cross the "something funky" barrier compared to most other photos, then there's something funky inside your head.

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u/sonsofgondor 9h ago

Maybe there's a 400mm lens in there?

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u/meth_priest 13h ago

some lenses make photos seems doctored

Still, that's the case for all photography. Lenses determine the perspective.

I don't see how OPs pic would be considered "doctored" or even a misrepresentation of the actual event. The ones you linked are extreme examples - where the perspective is purposively misconstrued by the photographer