I once shot a wedding that was scheduled around a full moon. I replaced the moon in the photos with a NASA image, color matched it, and made it like 5x bigger than the original.
Nobody noticed.
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Obligatory moon:
Just bring $2200 of glass with you. No problem, bro. (Someone with an even bigger lens will surely show me up on this eventually...)
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Yep.
I hate it when people say "the human eye is 35mm" or whatever. It is not. It is black magic that paints visualizations however TF it wants, and we're barely aware of it.
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I swear with hills too, I can be standing infront of a thousand foot slope and the camera makes it look like you could throw a rock over it.
It's because the actual sky is so large. When you look at the moon in real life, your eye focuses on it so it takes up more of your visual field. Try looking straight up and doing a 360Β° and you'll notice just how large the sky actually is.
When you photograph the moon, especially with a wide-angle lense, it doesn't fill the visual field as much because it maintains the objective proportions of everything within it, and projects that onto a flat image. So when you see it on a screen, it looks smaller because you hadn't previously noticed how small the moon is relative to the sky itself.
It's ok. The demon that lives in my camera has the same problem.
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(I know, this is also about photographs)
Actually, you can take a good pic of the moon, set your aperture to f11, then your iso and shutter speed to about 200 and 1/200s, try and adjust as needed. Also a decent telephoto lens helps of course.
Idk if you can do that on a phone, but with a "real" camera it can be done for sure and they actually come out pretty OK.
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So why does it do that? I know itβs something with the lens size but what specifically?
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Why can't they paint it the way they see it? Usually the issue is photographs never capture what it looks like, but when painting it's your perception that's the reference.
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When a life long romantic faces reality they get upset.
When a life long realist is confronted by feelings of real romance, they very well may want to die when they also face the reality of it.
Be happy to be dumb enough to be in the first camp if you are.
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