Actually, the 50mm lens is what you'd use here. It's end result is basically the equivalent to what you see with your eyes.
This video about landscape photography touches on that a bunch with a bunch of examples of mountains and comparisons against other focal lengths. The examples are truly stunning and I think they do a great job of capturing scale.
There are focal lengths similar to a human FOV, but no exact replica. Such is the limitation of representing something 3d perceived with binocular vision in 2d.
Composition matters much more. Stand under a skyscraper and point a 50mm up at it, with the sky taking up at least half the frame, and it won't look like anything special.
Now walk half a mile away, put a human in the middle ground, and cut the top of the skyscraper off so there's no sky visible. It will suddenly look huge and imposing. That's pretty much what's happening in this video.
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u/nirmalspeed Feb 12 '25
Actually, the 50mm lens is what you'd use here. It's end result is basically the equivalent to what you see with your eyes.
This video about landscape photography touches on that a bunch with a bunch of examples of mountains and comparisons against other focal lengths. The examples are truly stunning and I think they do a great job of capturing scale.