God's eye from utah😍

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u/Spartan2470 Aug 13 '21 edited Aug 13 '21

Here is a higher quality version of this image. Credit to the photographer, Zach Cooley (aka zachcooleyphoto on Instagram). Per that source:

Utah, USA

Happy Halloween weekend! I planned an entire vacation mostly around the fact that the moonrise would align with this arch and I could get something resembling a spooky eye on the week of Halloween. Over two nights I got some single shots and double exposures, I thought this one was best for the eye look, what do you think? Can't wait to share more with you all!⁠ ⁠ In-camera double exposure⁠ Moon: 🔹550mm🔹F/9🔹1/160sec.🔹ISO 160⁠ Arch: 🔹250mm🔹F/9🔹1/5 sec.🔹ISO 160

Oct 30, 2020

Here he elaborates:

"That image, as I shared in my original post, was an in-camera double exposure - two consecutive photos merged together in-camera when taken. I wish that information was always shared, but I understand why it isn't always passed along.

"One fascinating thing to me is that for the most part the premises for people guessing that the image was fake are completely false. The top two reasons are something along the lines of 'The moon is never that big', and 'The moon never has that alignment'.

"To help set the record straight I wanted to share this series of photos, all of which are single exposures, taken the night after the moon eye image.

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u/Caville Verified Photographer Aug 13 '21

I get what he's saying about the in-camera double exposure and people saying it's fake.

But it is fake. Sure, it may have had zero maniplation in post, and that the digital negative is exactly what is seen in the image.. but it's a double exposure. You take one exposure at 200mm, then you point at the moon and zoom to 600mm, line up the previous exposure so it lands in the 'eye', and take that exposure to seal.

It's stretching the truth. It's simply a different kind of fake to the others.

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u/jhairehmyah Aug 13 '21

Was Star Wars: A New Hope digitally animated? No. But did it put cameras in space and make little ships fly around a giant space station? No. "Fake" can be accomplished with manual methods or digital methods, and I fully agree with you, this is a stretch for the photographer to claim this isn't "fake" just because he combined tricks in front of the glass as opposed to in front of the screen.

The only difference, and why this is notable, however, is the photog demonstrated impressive skill from in front of the glass where many would be far more lazy and do it all from in front of the screen.

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u/Caville Verified Photographer Aug 13 '21

I’m not sure using a science fiction film was the best idea for that analogy

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u/jhairehmyah Aug 13 '21

Why? They used tricks that involved both pre and post production but no "Photoshop" to make clearly unreal "fake" things look real. This image is clearly unreal but the photographer is saying that its not "fake" because he didn't use photoshop.

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u/Caville Verified Photographer Aug 13 '21

Like I said in the original comment, it’s a different kind of fake.

Is it real? No. Same as your Star Wars analogy. I get what you’re saying, I really do, but something being ‘fake’ can still be ‘fake’ without digital manipulation.

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u/not_a_welder Aug 13 '21

Seems like this photo specifically is not a double exposure. I think the double exposure images have a much larger moon relative to the arch

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u/Caville Verified Photographer Aug 13 '21

Well that would make more sense. Misleading text with the post in that case!

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u/not_a_welder Aug 13 '21

The articles aren’t super clear, so I’m just speculating, but the photos where the moon is huge appear to use the same lens for the arch as this one, plus he made a big deal about planning on being there at exactly the right time. If he was just going to shoot the moon then shoot the arch separately, he could do it at any full moon

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u/IforgotwhatIwasdoing Aug 13 '21

I'm assuming this is a composition and the moon was not actually in the arch photo.

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u/fnmikey Aug 14 '21

I've never seen the moon that big before sooooo

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u/broikeson Aug 13 '21

Gods Glaucoma There, I fixed it for you.

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u/THIS_IS_GOD_TOTALLY_ Aug 13 '21

That's why I always get Gorilla Glue

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u/Yulinka17 Aug 13 '21

Not this again...

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u/toastbot Aug 13 '21

Seems angry. Probably looking at Florida.

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u/MorienWynter Aug 13 '21

Did you know Florida was once part of another supercontinent and it just dumped the entire peninsula on us? Such an asshole move.

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u/Madushanka1985 Aug 13 '21

Beautiful photo...

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u/Rajudey22 Aug 13 '21

Looking so very beautiful

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u/psilocin72 Aug 13 '21

Awesome spectacular pic.

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u/_Alpha______ Aug 13 '21

Byakugan

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u/Siollear Aug 13 '21

Of course god has those crazy eyes where it's white all around the cornea

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u/THIS_IS_GOD_TOTALLY_ Aug 13 '21

Pobody's Nerfect

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u/Western_Championship Aug 13 '21

hey, that's amore

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u/samsam987 Aug 13 '21

Rinnesharingan

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u/oasishippie Aug 13 '21

Photoshopped

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u/1365 Aug 13 '21

Perfectly doable. Long telephoto lens with probably a crop cause you have to be pretty far way from the arch to get these proportions.

Photographer: Zach Cooley

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u/xSliver Aug 13 '21

He does a huge moon picture with telemeteric zoom and then double exposures the picture to get the end result.

So basically Old School Photoshop with increased difficulty.

https://designyoutrust.com/2020/12/meet-zach-cooley-a-moon-chaser-who-uses-camera-tricks-to-make-the-moon-look-really-huge/

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u/1365 Aug 13 '21

Ye built in feature for many cameras but technically possible with a single shot if the arch is correctly aligned to the correct cardinal direction and some tinkering with exposure of the either moon or arch in Lr or Ps

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u/contactin Aug 13 '21

Not saying it's fake, but since you seem to know about this stuff, how is the proportion between the moon and the people in the arch possible?

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u/lilacsan Aug 13 '21

If you think of it like this, the moon is going to stay the same size no matter how far you walk but the arch is going to shrink if you do. So you have a telephoto lens and take a photo really far from the arch so the moon will look bigger.

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u/contactin Aug 13 '21

Yea that makes perfect sense!

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u/Obnoxiousdonkey Aug 14 '21

to hammer it home, put your thumb over the moon with an outstretched arm. completely covers the moon. now move your arm in a foot or 2 and it gets DRASTICALLY bigger. if you walk the same distance, the moon stays the same size

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u/1365 Aug 13 '21 edited Aug 13 '21

The moon is very far away. Its size will never change no matter where you are on earth. In relative terms the arch is very close compared to the moon. If you are close to the arch it looks massive, the further you move away from the arch the smaller it gets. It's pretty much the same as any picture you find when you Google "forced perspective photography". In this example the arch/people are the thing that are close to the camera and the moon very far away. To have the same effect, the photographer will have to move away from the arch until it's size matches the moon. (This ofcourse contradicts with the picture but as i said it is porbably cropped in. The perspecive of the arch will change dramatically whilest the moon won't change at all) This is also why I mentioned he would need a telephoto lens because you'd be pretty far away for the arch to get it to the same size. The photographer probably even cropped the image to make everything look even larger than it already is because modern lenses can't even zoom in this much to get the same framing. The original probably has a lot wider field of view.

Hopefully, that makes sense.

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u/contactin Aug 13 '21

That is a great explanation, thank you! Man, it must have been quite the cool puzzle to get this shot exactly right. Thanks to you I appreciate the photo even more!

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u/Tru_advocate Aug 13 '21

Wish it wasn’t

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u/Nyxtro Aug 13 '21

Someone should shop those people out, clone stamp some sky over their asses

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u/RubberDuckyKiller Aug 13 '21

Needs to be renamed Natures Eye since there is no God.

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u/IforgotwhatIwasdoing Aug 13 '21

What the fuck. Gotta pick your battles better than this. Who cares if they call it God's Eye? It affects literally nobody.

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u/Lovedayin Aug 13 '21

Exactly, it is their picture and they can call it whatever they want

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u/THIS_IS_GOD_TOTALLY_ Aug 13 '21

I second this suggestion