Some phones do that by themselves hehe

Not sure if you're proud or chagrined that they didn't notice. But you know that's because you sized it right, because you were there and saw it. You made it look as magical as it felt in the moment.

That's some professional work right there.

Wow. Meanwhile I asked then ti just slightly airbrush my balding top for the main photos, not all, just a few of the ones wed select for prints and they didnt do shit.

I once shot a wedding

https://youtube.com/shorts/s2yixGV94ho

I'd call that the brain, not the eye, but I think that the broader point stands.

This isn't animated, though if you look at it fullscreen, it will tend to appear to be:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/943e6298-132d-4206-855f-681e6c047354.jpeg

Is it blue and black or gold and white?

Square A and B are the same brightness:

These lines are straight:

50mm is considered equivalent to what we see. At 50mm, the relative size of objects to each other equals our vision, not necessarily the field of vision.

I managed to snag these back in 2021 with a Nikon P510, a superzoom mfg in 2012. Paid $35 at a thrift store! Good enough for my purposes, I suppose. My dslr is a Canon Rebel XS that I started with and now pair with a Rebel 35mm. Not trying to diminish your shot or anything, just comparing so people can see what you can still manage on a beginner budget

And this was the 2024 Solar Eclipse.

This is the best I’ve got

The moon takes about half a degree of the sky's arc. (So does the sun. That's why total eclipses are possible.)

Since the horizons are 180 degrees apart, that means you could fit 360 moons in arc overhead from horizon to horizon.

Which looks impossible and demonstrates the optical illusion at play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion

This was through the eyepiece of my telescope. And then layered into the background with Photoshop.

Why f11?

There's a book series -- that I can't pull from my memory -- with a tiny demon in a "camera" who paints a picture when told..

Is this a reference to that, or just a complaint about FOV? Or both? If a reference, what is the book? I know it, but can't dredge it up or find it by searching.

I think that's the joke.

I think that the main factor is that you take photo that captures a wide angle and then view it on a relatively small screen, which doesn't take up as much of your field of view as the original captured image did.

If you had a bigger display and a right distance, it would take up the same amount of your field of view and would feel bigger.

Though probably part of that is also that you feel/know that the moon is far away, so it must be actually huuuge, but the screen is closer, so it doesn't trigger the same awe, on the subconscious level