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

Place The oppressive feeling of the pamir plateau

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u/LyleTheLanley Feb 11 '25

I have visited the Pamir plateau, and my opinion is that there’s some camera trickery going on here. Feels like the saturation has been turned up, and the framing/zoom has been set to mess with your perception. That being said, the pamir mountains are very impressive - I just don’t recall them being quite as vibrant as this.

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u/EelTeamTen Feb 12 '25

I'll say that this is a pretty possible view from a personal perspective. I've never been here, but the camera trickery does a good job of capturing how our eyes perceive views like this at times. I forget the phenomena, but without exterior references far off objects can look gargantuan.

I've seen this living in WA state and Mt Rainier, in certain areas would look massive even though it was hundreds of miles away, driving in SoCal mountains and feeling like an ant, driving in east TX mountains and the moon taking up 1/3 of my sky view.

I'd assume it's a lens that captures that effect, so it's not really disingenuous, because a normal lense wouldn't look anything like what your eyes see.

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u/Fattatties Feb 12 '25

I have a few monster Rainier spots I like to go to every now and then just to feel really small. It's weird how small it feels from the park in paradise, you're literally on it and it seems dinky. See it from bonney lake or black diamond framed by trees and it looks like Everest!

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u/EelTeamTen Feb 12 '25

I lived in Bremerton and the drive home had a view where the mountain was absolutely massive. 500yds to the side from my house, it was tiny. Perspective with human eyes changes everything.

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u/rpgmind Feb 12 '25

That cluster of giant diamond shaped rock in the middle, the slope from the road to the bottom of that doesn’t look crazy steep, am i wrong? Is it a funny angle that maybe doesn’t look as steep as it is to me? I feel like you could walk to that rock

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u/qualitative_balls Feb 12 '25

Utah is even more insane, it's just walls of mountains / hills right up against towns and cities, it can feel surreal in many areas around there

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u/GPStephan Feb 12 '25

Meh. It's just a telephoto lens on the camera. Nothing special, really. Google "focal length".