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

Place The oppressive feeling of the pamir plateau

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u/TurgidGravitas Feb 11 '25

It's only disorienting due to the camera settings. It's just a hill.

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u/hemlockecho Feb 11 '25

What are they doing with the camera here? Is it just zoomed in and we aren't used to seeing moving videos with extended zoom like this? I've seen other videos like this before that are disorienting in the same way,

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u/Lv_InSaNe_vL Feb 11 '25

It's just a really long telephoto lens. Lenses like that will compress the image to make things look taller and more dramatic.

It's the same effect (but the opposite) going on in videos like this. The stairs are pretty steep still, but instead of looking almost vertical they look more like this from the side

The technical name for the effect is called "Lens Compression", and here is a good short or a good article with some more details of you want.

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u/KickFacemouth Feb 12 '25

You see a lot of lens compression in aviation photography, where people see pictures like this and talk about it going "straight up," when in reality is was more like 30°