r/pics • u/silent_kni8 • Aug 13 '21

God's eye from utah😍

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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/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