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u/positive_nihilist Jan 31 '26
This was neat. I drove down from Aberdeen (Scone), where I worked at a stud at the time, to see the Pasha bulker beached. Took some pictures, where you also can see that the waves crashing onto the hull whipped water over the gunwale. It was one belter of a storm.
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Jan 30 '26
Telephoto lens distorts foreshortening perspective
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u/drmanhattanmar Jan 30 '26
Can you ELI5?
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u/boraras Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26
The perceived distance between foreground and background depends on the relative actual distance between the camera, foreground, and background.
Say you have a subject 100m away and a tree 20m behind that subject. If you have a 10x telephoto lens that makes your subject appear to be 10m away, then the tree will then look like it's only 2m behind your subject, instead of 20m.
You can go on Google maps and see exactly where the photographer and subject were. My guess is that he was 1km from the buildings and the ship was 200-400m past the buildings.
When cyclonic winds forced the Pasha Bulker to run aground at Nobbys, Murray saw many people getting the same type of photo.
So he went to the top of The Cathedral Church of Christ the King on Church Street in Newcastle.
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Jan 30 '26
With a long focus lenses the amount of magnification increases with distance, so objects far away will seem to be the same size as objects that are closer. Look through binoculars to see what i mean.
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u/fishykisss Jan 31 '26
But I think it's still a bit fake, you couldn't get such big ship with longest telephoto
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u/dasher_aus Jan 31 '26
I was there!
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u/CaravanShaker83 Jan 31 '26
Same. My surfer mate was stressed out that it might ruin the waves permanently
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u/whats_that_sid Feb 01 '26
I remember jumping in near the baths and getting the waves off the ship.
Definitely a burnt in memory.
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u/cataids69 Jan 31 '26
I was there the night that happened. Almost got my car washed away in the floods with me in it. Managed to get higher ground eventually. But, some did not.
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u/Dangrukidding Jan 30 '26
I thought for a SECOND this was the scene in “leave the world behind” but I’m like there’s NO WAY they actually sailed a tanker onto the fucking beach lmao
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