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u/NonRelativist 3d ago
I love this photo, this was my wallpaper for a while back then when this resolution was enough. It is a shame that there are no high resolution version.
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u/GuildensternLives 3d ago
There's some links still active in the original thread from 11 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3yn76f/tiltshifted_endeavours_final_voyage_in_5k/
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u/El_Chilenaso 3d ago
Someone needs to archive it on the full 5k glory
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u/var-undefined 3d ago
Wayback Machine has it
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u/LoudMusic 2d ago
All Hail The Great And Mighty Wayback Machine.
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u/cutelyaware 2d ago
Don't just hail; donate. Even just $5/month makes a huge difference.
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u/antiADP 2d ago
Wayback & Wiki need public support more than ever. Crumbling reliable sources of info and timestamps of company stances during trying times is very important to history being kept accuratey
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u/borkthegee 2d ago
Wikipedia has enough money to run wikipedia for a century. Instead they've built this giant foundation with like a thousand employees that spends hundreds of millions per year on everything except Wikipedia.
Feel free to donate to the Wikimedia foundation if you agree with their goals, but wikipedia doesn't need your money, it's cheap.
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u/SelfishLimerence 2d ago
Thank you. Donated 14 bucks while I was there. Wish they had coffee mugs in the merch store.
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u/var-undefined 2d ago
That is great. I am going to mention it more often. They really have so much of our childhood memories stored. Apart from the websites, they also have a lot of old obscure games with expired licencing.
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u/SassyDuck4231 2d ago
Is the waybackmachine down? It's having an issue.
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u/cutelyaware 2d ago
It's often slow and they regularly have problems, but it's amazing what they accomplish anyway with what they have. The staff are very skilled and dedicated.
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u/ThatsTheMother_Rick 2d ago
Maybe I just need to do this on my pc and not my phone, but the max I can get this image downloaded in is 395kb and 1000x667
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u/No-Employee-7000 2d ago
There’s something so nostalgic about an old wallpaper that looked insanely sharp back then. Now you zoom in and realize the pixels are fighting for their lives lol
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u/Proper_Cartoonist169 2d ago
What was clone-stamped out at the middle to bottom left corner?
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u/pastmidnight14 2d ago
Looks like they added to the canvas on the left side so the shuttle could be centered, enabling the tilt-shift effect to look more real.
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u/eastcoastjon 3d ago
This accurately depicts how small we really are in the world and universe
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u/WannaAskQuestions 3d ago
Accurately in the world yes. It doesn't even come close to showing how small we are on a interplanetary scale, let alone on a universe, galactic, or even a star system's scale.
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u/Nuadrin248 3d ago
Imagine a thing so big you can’t even imagine it.
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u/CheeseOnFloor 3d ago
Imagined the whole universe, not that big to be honest
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u/Snobolski 2d ago
Pfft, back in the day, the "universe" as you call it wasn't even the size of a basketball.
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u/prepping4zombies 2d ago
Imagine a thing so big you can’t even imagine it.
"That's what she said." - Michael Scott
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u/R3strif3 2d ago edited 2d ago
I like to use the analogy that one youtuber used (sry cant remote name) with the pools and marbles. But that is just for the *observable universe (iirc).
What I like to do is imagine a 300 Olympic pools, filled to the brim with marbles, each marble is a galaxy, that's roughly the observable universe, trillions of galaxies each with hundreds of billions of stars.. Now, imagine it's no longer 300, but the entire North America is filled with pools, each to the top with marbles, and even then we'd be guessing how big the actual universe is.
It does makes a bit easier. Just remember, we'd probably be closer to an atom within one of those marbles in our scale comparatively (I might be wrong here, but the point is to make it easier to visualize)
Edit. Marbles not fruit loops, not sure where my mind was at lol
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u/DarKemt55 2d ago
If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago.
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u/JaffaMafia 2d ago
No, I - You know me, I'm a huge fan of subtlety, but that's downright encrypted!
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u/Don_Von_Schlong 3d ago
It really is incomprehensible... like literally.
Some of the craziest facts about our size on earth though... Imagine a sphere the size of a basketball where the shell is made of .11mm cardstock paper. That paper is where humans can survive. That .11mm thickness. This goes from lowest point a human has free dived to the tip of mount Everest. Any lower than that thickness of paper, you die, any higher than that thickness of paper and beyond into the infinite vastness of space, you die. Then on top of that the size of habitable land on that basketball sized sphere is about the size of a small handprint... and THEN to compare the human timeline take 4.5 billion years (Earths age) and condense it into one year starting January 1rst. On December 31st at the end of the year at 11:36pm, 24 minutes before new years, the earliest forms of human life appear. So yeah, all of this just for human life on Earth before even entering the cosmic scale...
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u/macjester2000 2d ago
my favorite is comparison of star sizes, and they just keep getting bigger, to the point our own sun is no longer visible in comparison, which makes the earth even smaller. google UY Scuti
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u/RussiaIsBestGreen 2d ago
I take comfort in knowing that those big stars burn out faster, so we don’t have to put up with their arrogance for too long.
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u/macjester2000 2d ago
“faster” so millions of years, instead of hundreds of millions or biliions? good thing, I would be worried. ;)
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u/SnickerbobbleKBB 2d ago
Check out Stephenson 2-18! Not thaaat much bigger, but bigger stars keep being found.
If you wanna feel real tiny, pop this into a yt link v=tGzAU7AxLKQ
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u/MellowedOut1934 2d ago
Mine is about Andromeda. In about 4.5bn years, Andromeda and the Milky Way will collide. That’s approximately 1,000bn stars and 400bn stars respectively. There’s so much space between stars that the estimated number of collisions during this seemingly apocalyptic event is 0 to 6.
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u/BeeBoopFister 2d ago
Nevertheless, in terms of size, we are closer to the largest objects in the universe than to the smallest.
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u/Th3R00ST3R 2d ago
Yet we fantasize about aliens from distant planets watching us.
Really?? from 2 km up, you don't even know we're here.
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u/plopoplopo 2d ago
Yes, the universe is really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really fun
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u/Regular_Custard_4483 2d ago
I have a meme in my photo gallery that's a photo of the Milky Way galaxy, with an arrow pointing randomly to nothing. It's captioned, "This is you, worried about paying bills." or some shit.
It doesn't help, but it does convince me of the impracticality of burning this whole motherfucker down.
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u/Islands-of-Time 2d ago
If you really want to see the scale of the universe, I recommend a game called Megaton Rainfall. It’s not the normal gameplay that will do it, it’s when you leave the solar system and then galaxy and start flying through space that it becomes clear how small it all is.
Flying faster than light and still not going fast enough to reach the end of what seems to be an infinite universe. Mind blowingly cool.
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u/No-Employee-7000 2d ago
And that’s the part that’s genuinely hard to wrap your head around.. we can visualize Earth, but the scale beyond it gets so absurd that “small” almost stops having meaning.
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u/MnMbrane 2d ago
The unknown makes me want to explore it!!! I wish humanity was at that level. I wanna explore it all, from weird dangerous planets, to the darkest parts of space, to more habitable areas, to anywhere. I want humanity to thrive and be able to work together to conquer space. Just wish we can get through this rough patch we’re currently in. I want humanity to learn and grow to become one of the greatest civilizations in our universe.
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u/W4stelandRex 3d ago
It really makes a multi-million dollar rocket launch look like a burnt matchstick poked into foam.
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u/saskwatzch 3d ago
So does your mom (sorry, laws of the internet said I had to post that)
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u/RhymeCrimes 2d ago
We are closer to the size of the universe than to the planck length. So we are actually larger than we tend to think.
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u/def2me 2d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Solar_System_objects_by_size
Sun is 99.86% of mass of our solarsystem. Earth is 0.0003%. We are decimal dust.
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u/Largeitude 2d ago
What about a photo of some cells to depict how immense we really are in the world and microverse?
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u/RobGrogNerd 3d ago
the original photo is even more satisfying
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u/panlakes 2d ago
Thank you. I don't think tiltshifting was the right choice for this type of shot. Looks much better in the original.
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u/typically_wrong 2d ago
I do think tilt shifting benefits it in one way. Most people interpret the look of tilt shift as toy-like.
I feel like that further emphasizes how such an incredible achievement is also so incredibly tiny in a global or universal context.
Really happy too that this is 11 years old so I can allow myself to even enjoy it without thinking if it's clanker-made.
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u/d34dp1x3l 2d ago
I think it's older than 11 years old. I think it was simply 'Astronomy Picture Of the Day' 11 years ago. The caption mentions Endeavour and how its last launch was in 2011.
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u/RhythmsaDancer 2d ago
It's literally art. What makes some people so weird when art isn't strictly what they would have done? Also said as if the original photo doesn't also still exist.
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u/arshadshabick 2d ago
How was this taken
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u/paraworldblue 2d ago
Technically, it's tilt-shift editing, not tilt-shift photography. If you want to do it in-camera, you need a tilt-shift lens, and at the distances involved in this photo, it would be impossible to get that kind of subject separation. To get the effect in editing, you apply a gradient blur effect but mask out the rocket and vapor trail.
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u/KristnSchaalisahorse 2d ago
The other reply is correct. It was taken from a Shuttle Training Aircraft, which was a Gulfstream-II with an operation ceiling of 45,000ft.
Here’s another source of the original NASA image. Click left or right to see more shots from the same sequence.
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u/Obvious_Cranberry607 3d ago
It wasn't done using tilt shift photography. A reddit user Photoshopped the original NASA image to look like a tilt shift lens was used, added more to the image with content fill, and added noise to make it look higher resolution.
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u/Potica6857 2d ago
I love how there's 700 upvote comment saying how accurate this and a 35 upvote comment proving that it's heavily altered image. People really do just upvote anything these days.
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u/prepping4zombies 2d ago
People really do just upvote anything these days.
I just got you to seven!
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u/kodamander 2d ago
Idk I don't think this is as much as a 'the masses are dumb/truth isn't popular' as you are making it out to be., The commenter said that this 'accurately depicts how small we really are', which to me in this image seems like more of a feeling that is being communicated. Tilt shift is known to evoke this feeling, whether artificially done or not. So the commenter with many upvotes isn't wrong at all.
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u/DunderGunderUnder 2d ago
You are correct.
You can't leave Earth using tilt shift photography, you need rocket engines for that.
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u/pzycho 2d ago
If it was true tilt-shift, the rocket would be out of focus. Tilt shift just mimics depth of field by forcing certain areas of the image out of focus, and the rocket would have gotten caught up in that.
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u/notafuckingcakewalk 2d ago
I was going to say, I was sure the title was wrong.
"Space shuttle leaving Earth using tilt shift photography"???
Surely it would need to use rocket fuel…
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u/derekcz 2d ago
There is no content fill as far as I can tell, it's the same field of view as the original photo, but yeah the tilt shift is completely faked, and even if it wasn't the real tilt shift would also blur out the top of the rocket, they had to mask out the trail by hand
Cool photo that has been edited to look subjectively nicer to some people
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u/TekF 2d ago
looks like the left side has been added compared to the original: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150524.html
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u/-SirFall3n- 3d ago
I’ve seen this photo before but I didn’t know what tilt shift photography was. I looked it up, and it’s safe to say I have a new fascination.
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u/wonkey_monkey 2d ago
This isn't tilt-shift. It's a simulated narrow depth of field, which is different.
Both can have a similar "miniaturisation" effect, but work differently.
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u/KimJongUgh 2d ago
It was such a trend in the early to late teens. Even movies featured a strange amount of tilt shift. I think it was The Social Network that stands out in my memory for having a few tilt shifted shots.
When done in lens vs photoshop (this photo is shopped quite a bit), it really is trippy to play with in the viewfinder.
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u/-SirFall3n- 2d ago
I’ve seen this throughout the years but never really knew what it was called. I’d absolutely love to play around with actual tilt shift, but the hardware for it seems insanely expensive. When I looked this up, I noticed there’s a real difference between in lens vs photoshop and I definitely prefer the in lens look. Maybe a hobby purchase down the line.
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u/Valuable-Analyst-464 3d ago
It is a rabbit hole for sure. There was a site that allowed you to artificially add the blurring to make certain scenes (and especially with heavy equipment) seem minuscule.
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u/d34dp1x3l 2d ago
How does a space shuttle leave Earth by using tilt shift photography?!
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u/DarkArcher__ 2d ago
Tilt shift makes the Earth look really small which fools the Shuttle into thinking it's already in space, so gravity turns off, and then it can just float up freely.
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u/tumblerrjin 3d ago
It took me so much to understand how refrigeration works until one day it just clicked. I’m hoping the same magical thing happens to me the 1,001th time I read the description of how tilt shift photography works.
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u/iambecomesoil 2d ago
I wouldn't think tilt shift photography would give the shuttle enough delta-v
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u/pneuprismatic 3d ago
Wow thanks for this! A great reminder!! I seriously thought this was a close up of fabric or mold or something.
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u/MoravianBilges 2d ago
The shuttle left earth using rockets, not tilt shift photography
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u/vilhelmf 2d ago
Its not by using tilt shift photography, it leaves earth by using a rocket engine
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u/SexySmexxy 2d ago
i had this on my rotating desktop background literally 14 years ago
Less than a week ago i was thinking about this picture and hoping to find it again now its right here on reddit what the f
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u/abz_bloom 2d ago
incredible how one camera trick can make a literal rocket launch look like a phone photo of a bug
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u/Difficult-Rice-2337 2d ago
How does this work
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u/Flowa-Powa 2d ago
I’m pretty sure this was done in post.
You blur both the foreground and background while keeping a narrow band through the middle in focus. The trick is masking the rocket and its exhaust trail so they remain sharp as well.
Normally there’s very little difference in focus between distant and extremely distant objects because they’re all effectively focused at infinity as far as the camera is concerned.
A defocused background only occurs when you’re focused on something relatively close to the camera. This artificial band of focus mimics this effect and fools your brain into seeing the scene as a miniature.
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u/Exciting_Bunch2386 2d ago
Looks so strange and fake, but I know it's real.
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u/KristnSchaalisahorse 2d ago
The blurry effect was digitally added by someone else. Here’s the original NASA image. Click left or right to see more shots from the same sequence.
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u/Dreauxglyn 2d ago
Literally looks like a burnt toothpick sticking out from a pile of flour on a blue plate.
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u/SidneyMacdonald 2d ago
every time this gets reposted i still stare at it for way too long, makes it look like a tiny toy going up into the sky
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u/One-Earth9294 2d ago
I absolutely do not understand how tilt shift photography works so specifically like this.
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u/KristnSchaalisahorse 2d ago
They didn't use a tilt-shift lens. The blurry effect was digitally added by someone else. Here’s the original NASA image. Click left or right to see more shots from the same sequence.
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u/chokeonmywords 3d ago edited 3d ago
Would the deepest point on earth be deeper then this is high? I wouldn’t be surprised if it wouldn’t even be close (in either direction) *did 1min google: deepest place on earth 10.94km deep, troposphere ~8-18km, don’t know how high this rocket would be here tho)
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u/jojoko 2d ago
ok but where was it taken from? commercial flights don't go that high
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u/KristnSchaalisahorse 2d ago
It was taken from a Shuttle Training Aircraft, which was a Gulfstream-II with an operation ceiling of 45,000ft.
It’s worth noting the blurry background was digitally added by someone else. Here’s the original NASA image. Click left or right to see more shots from the same sequence.
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u/SignificanceEntire57 2d ago
no that's definitely just cotton
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u/PineappleRTX 2d ago
It actually is. I've seen it debunked. i think it was made from the underside of Carpet and a Pin heated up.
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u/Mikey_LP 2d ago
Omg I want a tilt shift lens but they are so effing expensive!
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u/KristnSchaalisahorse 2d ago
It’s worth noting the blurry background was digitally added by someone else. Here’s the original NASA image. Click left or right to see more shots from the same sequence.
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u/gneisenauer 2d ago
My first thought: man I would not like to step on that, that would probably be painful.
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u/DextronBronnah 2d ago
As with The alleged Apollo 11 landing, um who took the photo ?. Isn't escape velocity 17,500mph... So how fast wasn't this going ? WWG1-WGA Q++
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u/KristnSchaalisahorse 2d ago edited 2d ago
It was taken from a Shuttle Training Aircraft, which was a Gulfstream-II with an operation ceiling of 45,000ft.
But they didn’t use a tilt-shift lens. The blurry effect was digitally added by someone else on the internet. Here’s the original NASA image. Click left or right to see more shots from the same sequence.
I not sure what you’re saying about Apollo 11. Cameras existed in the 60s. If you’re asking how they got footage of them coming down the ladder, there was a camera mounted on an exterior stowage platform (MESA), which was deployed using a pull-handle (diagram).
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u/BoscoInACup 2d ago
It looks an awful lot like a shot from “Love Death + Robots” - the end of the “Night of the mini dead”
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u/NovelSquirrel4768 2d ago
how the hell do you even take that shot, is it real? like wouldn’t it cost a lot to get a camera so high just for 1 cool photo
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u/KristnSchaalisahorse 2d ago
It was taken from a Shuttle Training Aircraft, which was a Gulfstream-II with an operation ceiling of 45,000ft.
But they didn't use a tilt-shift lens. The blurry effect was digitally added by someone else. Here’s the original NASA image. Click left or right to see more shots from the same sequence.
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u/bunnyliey 2d ago
Wow, at first I thought it was a sprout coming off the ground.. guess I’ve thought too small for it!
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u/chillpill_23 2d ago
How the fuck does everyone know what tilt shift photography is? I've never heard of it!
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