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Zixtank
Well, that shit could turn anyone religious, ngl.
Svartsinn
What's the focal length and aperture for this shot?
InexplicablyAvailableUsername
👁️
HamSlamwich
If thats Jacob Hamlin arch in Escalante, that moon is WAAAAY magnified.
GoodEarthBetweenMyToes
It always gets like that when it's on shrooms.
DaisyfromDownunder
You know 'They' are always watching you when ...
sarahsaurroar
Eye see the moon!
BeaverOnFire
relativisticigauna
Prismo?
Cyandvai
Moab? Always a good time when we go.
TexMexHex
Nice. No comments from folks 30 or younger who live with their parents claiming it is AI.
widowerorphan
It's still likely the moon is enhanced though. I've been there a lot, seen the moon through the arch, but never the moon that large.
airbreather
You'd have to be VERY far away, with a massive telephoto (~600mm I'd guess) but I'm not sure there's a vantage point at that angle that isn't actually underground. Lighting and focus plane would also be incredibly challenging, even in this age of AI-assisted processing. My guess is that it's 'shopped to enlarge (or simply paste in) the moon. (I shoot a lot of this kind of stuff FWIW)
wecouldbehappywithoutcapitalism
Looks like an eldritch demon
ironman3010
20/10 image!
cousteau
Eye like it.
Otomasoteraph
And why it's judging me?
VibratingNipples
Now with people in it https://imgur.com/sLDCCOK.png
cousteau
*eyes start itching for no reason*
alwaysupvotefuturama
Ew, people
StewedTomaters
Had to delete my comment because here it is, 9 hours ago.
GODzillaFH
Should get this checked out at the eye doctor. People are invasive and they spread like vermin! xD
redsmerf
It helps if you go in the day when it's hot as fuck:
laurapede83
Thank you. No filters. Is this red rock canyon! I swear I was there once.
redsmerf
Nah, Arches National Park
magictouch
It’s actually pretty when you sit in the whole because of the constant breeze it creates.
(It’s true despite the fart joke potential)
Starlatan
But what if the wind breaks!?
magictouch
There it is
Halfwise
What the original more likely looks like....
GwensBackOnHerBS
You just need to back way tf up and have a good zoom on your camera
The foreground will shrink while the moon stays the same size
JFredPrufrock
I too was skeptical but it is possible to get that shot without editing. https://www.zachcooleyphoto.com/blog/behind-the-shots-moon-eye
BoobJiggle
Yeah, I was going to say I don't think it's edited. If you're far enough away from the arch, it shrinks in relative size to the moon from your perspective. (The moon will stay consistent size no matter where you are on Earth, but you can be a long ways off from the arch and have it appear tiny. Then just use a telephoto lens)
cousteau
I mean, if you get far far away from it and zoom in a lot…
cousteau
And, uh, the people in the photo were posing exactly the same way… (didn't notice them at first, mb)
andtheseashalltell
Correct. It’s pretty, but nothing like the heavily-manipulated original.
JFredPrufrock
https://www.zachcooleyphoto.com/blog/behind-the-shots-moon-eye Not sure about the OP, but this photo was done without editing.
GwensBackOnHerBS
Ops photo is Hella fake
andtheseashalltell
It’s still manipulating the depth of field.
Halfwise
So it looks like the "trick" is that the photographer was extremely far away, and this photo has been cropped or zoomed in substantially, while using an extreme telephoto lens. From his position, the moon probably looked tiny, as did the "eye", but by positioning so far away, it "shrunk" the whole significantly enough to make it look large after cropping away the excess. Like squinting and crushing peoples head with your fingertips.
Frencheeseater
Very nice picture, thanks OP ! Where is it ?
mickeSpaceDancer
This is in the US, forgot the exact name but it's in the area of Moab
Yetiphobia
Artificials National Park
mikeatike
No, its real. :)
GwensBackOnHerBS
Sorry to tell you, but this picture is fake.
It looks kind of like one of the arches in Arches national park, but the details are all wrong.
mickeSpaceDancer
It's not, I have a photo of myself there too
GwensBackOnHerBS
You don't think it's fake?
It's missing a ton of rocks in the arch and foreground and stuff.
It's close but it looks like idealized ai slop based on the one moon pic that took years and years of planning to achieve
mickeSpaceDancer
Yeah I think the moon is photoshopped in (not sure though), but that arch is real
GwensBackOnHerBS
You can't tell how different it is from the real photo I posted?
NotFromFlorida
Probably Arches Nat’l Park. I feel like i have seen this particular structure before but at this park there are, well, a lot of arches https://www.nps.gov/arch/index.htm
Frencheeseater
Thank you ! I doubt i'll visit them in my life, but i dreamed of visiting some Anasazi kivas in New Mexico when i was younger and had some hope of earning enough dough to be able to fullfill some dreams. Enjoy the beauty of Nature, my friend, and have a nice day !
widowerorphan
Called the Windows at Arches National Park. There is another arch a tiny hike to the right that completes the set.
Fun fact, the arch at the beginning of The Last Crusade shares a parking lot with the Windows. It's called Double Arch. There is a third arch called Turret Arch in the same spot as well.
Beautiful place, a must visit
Double Arch (Utah) - Wikipedia https://share.google/vEwxnDakM4demJPoH
Turret Arch - Wikipedia https://share.google/lOUujXYQghFUKSZXQ
GwensBackOnHerBS
This photo is fake
widowerorphan
I replied somewhere else that the moon isn't ever that big and after comparing my own images, you're right, it's definitely trying to be the Windows but isn't
GwensBackOnHerBS
Bonus photo I took of Orion through the window.
GwensBackOnHerBS
I think someone did take a real picture with the moon roughly that big. And this looks like ai slop based on that.
To get that photo they tracked astral charts for years and set up a very specific shot from a pretty big distance to get the ratios right. (Backing up makes the foreground objects shrink faster than the far objects.)
But I was commenting because the rocks and surrounding area all look wrong.
Here's my pre-transtion ass there.