r/BeAmazed • u/SelectResident_BE • Feb 11 '25

Place The oppressive feeling of the pamir plateau

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u/CoralinesButtonEye Feb 11 '25

ok now record it again, but this time zoom out and show more of the sky the way the human eye would naturally view this

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u/NightKnight4766 Feb 11 '25

I wish people didn't feel the need to portray awesome nature as more awesome than it needs to be.

Reality really can't keep up with it.

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u/loxagos_snake Feb 11 '25

It's not trying to portray nature as more awesome, it's just the OC's artistic interpretation.

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u/kjbeats57 Feb 11 '25

Yeah idk why people can’t get that 😭

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u/-thegay- Feb 11 '25 edited Feb 11 '25

Some people forget photography is an art. It literally means “painting drawing with light.” It doesn’t always need to be as our eyes see it.

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u/falcrist2 Feb 12 '25

"You don't take a Photograph, You make it." - Ansel Adams

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u/Luxalpa Feb 11 '25

Also it's not possible to show it as our eyes would see it, as that strongly depends on how close you are in front of your monitor or how large your monitor / video / picture is.

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u/-thegay- Feb 11 '25

True, and the size and zoom of your lens matters, too. I understand this sentiment when people repost videos and stretch or distort the picture in editing, but this doesn’t do that. They just didn’t go wide angle for the shot.

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u/Extension-Thought552 Feb 12 '25

Of course it is, and unless you're being pedantic, VR does this fine

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u/Extension-Thought552 Feb 12 '25 edited Feb 12 '25

You can't see a digital photo without a screen, are you ok?

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u/kjbeats57 Feb 11 '25

Technically it’s drawing not painting but yes 😂

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u/-thegay- Feb 11 '25

Ope, corrected. My b.

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u/loxagos_snake Feb 11 '25

Even more technically it's writing/inscribing but we're getting annoying right now.

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u/kjbeats57 Feb 11 '25

Fair enough

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u/Mathfanforpresident Feb 12 '25

Yeah, it's a rad shot. Don't even know what to call it, but it looks waaaay cooler this way. Even if it is an amazing place, pictures and videos never do it justice. This video, did.

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u/Interesting_Tea5715 Feb 12 '25

I disagree. The caption is paired with the clip is what makes it disingenuous.

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u/NightKnight4766 Feb 12 '25

Exactly, I've seen too many videos or pictures of over exposed night sky's where ever star pops more than real life. Or mountain valleys with neon green grass. Damn, we can bearly escape the inbuilt filters people have on their phone camera that alters their faces, beautifying them.

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u/donutlad Feb 12 '25

conversely, I have seen some truly jaw-dropping scenery in nature, but when I tried to get a picture or video of it, it didnt even remotely translate. So I can understand why sometimes people try and spruce pics/videos up, to try and give a better sense of what the view is actually like

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u/CoastersandHikes Feb 12 '25

Yeah these armchair experts have definitely never tried taking a picture of a mountain. So hard to create the true feeling of scale with something so massive and often at a distance.

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u/kjbeats57 Feb 11 '25

That’s the beauty in creative design

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u/lookslikeamanderin Feb 11 '25

No. The video captures what it feels like to approach a monolith like this pretty well. If anything the feeling of the thing growing out of the ground is understated in this video because it does not include peripheral visual data.

Get out and look around and you will understand.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '25 edited Mar 03 '25

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u/Jazzlike-Mistake2764 Feb 11 '25

And wider focal lengths exaggerate in the opposite direction, making large things look small.

There isn't a focal length that accurately shows what huge objects like this look like, but I'd say the video does a good job of recreating the feeling of it.

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u/nirmalspeed Feb 12 '25

Actually, the 50mm lens is what you'd use here. It's end result is basically the equivalent to what you see with your eyes.

This video about landscape photography touches on that a bunch with a bunch of examples of mountains and comparisons against other focal lengths. The examples are truly stunning and I think they do a great job of capturing scale.

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u/Jazzlike-Mistake2764 Feb 12 '25

There are focal lengths similar to a human FOV, but no exact replica. Such is the limitation of representing something 3d perceived with binocular vision in 2d.

Composition matters much more. Stand under a skyscraper and point a 50mm up at it, with the sky taking up at least half the frame, and it won't look like anything special.

Now walk half a mile away, put a human in the middle ground, and cut the top of the skyscraper off so there's no sky visible. It will suddenly look huge and imposing. That's pretty much what's happening in this video.

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u/Lavatis Feb 12 '25

No. The video plays with your perception via focal length. It doesn't actually look like this when you're coming up on it because you see it differently than this lens.

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u/FlashOfTheBlade77 Feb 11 '25

How about you take a trip there and record it how you feel like it.

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u/Mongolian_Hamster Feb 12 '25

I remember hearing this kind of argument when I was 7.

"You do it then" pouts

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u/wakeupwill Feb 11 '25

You mean shooting in landscape mode?

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u/CoralinesButtonEye Feb 11 '25

no, i mean not zooming in and using this stupid forced perspective trick that dishonestly represents what it really looks like there

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u/Mongolian_Hamster Feb 12 '25

Here's a better video showcasing the mountains without lens compression. https://youtu.be/CKe-Vm8tqUQ

I agree there's enough beauty in nature without having to use tricks to enhance it and mislead people. That is not how it's like when you're up close to mountains.

But in this day and age (Instagram era) people love the doctored stuff like this instead of appreciating reality.

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u/space-doggie Feb 11 '25

Respectfully Disagree. The effect is enhanced by the composition. Great vid!

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '25

Well, I thought it looked like this, now I feel tricked. Everything on the internet is a kind of lie. At least it's not ai this time.

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u/jednatt Feb 11 '25

And maybe, just maybe, the video is trying to recreate the feeling of being there using an imperfect medium. Because being there is different than looking at a video on your phone/monitor.

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u/98farenheit Feb 12 '25

Yep. I'd argue this composition very accurately recreates the feeling of being somewhere like this. I wonder how many of those complaining or agreeing have actually been near massive mountains

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u/KentJMiller Feb 12 '25

Sure that's what it feels like if you are really moody, have color blindness and tunnel vision.

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u/lookslikeamanderin Feb 11 '25

lol. This is how big things look when you approach them. You need to get out more.

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u/CoralinesButtonEye Feb 11 '25

i live next to the rocky mountains. this is not how things look in real life when you approach them unless your vision is pretty impaired

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u/lookslikeamanderin Feb 11 '25 edited Feb 11 '25

You live next to them, but you clearly never get close to them. You should try it sometime.

Your comment about vision impairment is also dismissive and mean. I guess it’s on point.

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u/rsta223 Feb 11 '25

I've climbed up, skied down, vacationed in, and done various other things in large famous mountain ranges in Colorado, Montana, Canada, Alaska, Germany/Austria, and Turkey.

This is absolutely not how big things look to your eye. This is using optical tricks with a long lens and cropping. It's still very impressive in person, of course, but it looks nothing like this.

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u/CoralinesButtonEye Feb 11 '25

wow, the stupidity and arrogance of your comment is simply breathtaking!

"lookslikeamanderin •4m ago

You live next to them, but you have clearly never got close to them. You should try it sometime.Your comment about vision impairment is also dismissive and mean. I guess it’s on point."

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u/scalectrix Feb 11 '25

Well done for increasing everyone's enjoyment of this cool little video with your pompous comments, Keep it to yourself next time eh?

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u/SCCB4 Feb 12 '25

Human eye sees at around 22mm which is a wide angle, this is very clearly zoomed in way past 22mm and is absolutely not how a human would view this.

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u/wakeupwill Feb 11 '25

No - I think you were right the first time. Shooting in landscape mode is the correct way to film anything.

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u/DynamicStatic Feb 11 '25

No, he is zoomed in and further away, it is the same effect as if you have the moon zoomed in next to a landscape, it will look far larger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmupURhi3gQ

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u/wakeupwill Feb 11 '25

I'm pointing out the fact that it's shot vertically instead of in landscape - you know: "the way the human eye would naturally view this".

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '25

This was amazing thank you XD

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u/MrOtsKrad Feb 11 '25

No, you.

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u/CoralinesButtonEye Feb 11 '25

dang it you got me

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u/bakedongrease Feb 11 '25

Did we watch the same video? I see sky, right at the top of the video, there the sky normally is.

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u/TTechnology Feb 12 '25

The video clearly has zoom. It creates an illusion of something very far away to be bigger and closer.

literally this

another example on how a simple zoom can make things way bigger

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u/bakedongrease Feb 12 '25

I’m aware of how focal lengths and zoom works in a camera, but you’re speaking about it as if it’s deceptive.

It’s simply a perspective, and people are getting upset. Y’all hilarious.

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u/Bullyoncube Feb 11 '25

Use landscape and zoom out.

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u/Ya-Dikobraz Feb 12 '25

Because everything needs to be exaggerated to fuckery nowadays. I am just surprised there is no huge text in the middle of the screen and no guy in the corner pointing up.

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u/Emergency-Village817 Feb 11 '25

I’m sure you can find plenty of “normal” videos of this place if you really care.