photo of tanks seems awfully wrong

Raging_Ninja

On my tablet so can't postage itself, but take a look here. http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0804/635039-israel-ceasefire/

Picture of Israeli soldiers walking behind a tank. It looks like the soldiers are a good bit behind the tank, and yet they are the same size?

Anyone know if its just me?

JamBur

Im guessing the soldiers are on a higher lever

Hootanany

Genetically modified troops

corner of hells

Its a well known fact that the the modern Israeli soldier stands on average at 12 foot high.

This is why they hate fighting in tunnels.

Birneybau

Something something small, something something far away.

Nah, it is weird perspective alright.

Squeeonline

This one is close, but that one is far away.

Squeeonline

Birneybau wrote: »

Something something small, something something far away.

Nah, it is weird perspective alright.

snap!

kneemos

Israeli,s have weird helmets..

Pumpkinseeds

It looks very badly photo-shopped to me.

Absoluvely

The fact that the soldiers are a good but behind the tank is irrelevant because the camera is much further from it than the soldiers.

The further the camera, the more similar the scale of the objects in the photo.

Fr_Dougal

What is that? A tank for ANTS?

Tail Docker

TheZohan wrote: »

What is that? A tank for ANTS?

It is an anti-Tunnel of Mass Destruction Tank. Supplied by America. They thought it was American sized Tunnels they were going down, and as we all know, everything in the USA is bigger. Even the eejits.

Hande hoche!

The Israelis are deploying Golems.

Tail Docker

Hande hoche! wrote: »

The Israelis are deploying Golems.

They're some height..

c_man

It's a baby tank.

holystungun9

One last time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh5kZ4uIUC0

Sky King

I am not a photographer but I am guessing that the image was taken with a huge zoom lens from a great distance

This has the effect of flatting images and making them 2 dimensional or cardboard cut-out like because the relative distance between the objects you are shooting is so much smaller than your distance to them

You see this effect in the red tops when they snap celebs from miles away doing whatever.

*Edit - this explains it better
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_distortion_(photography)

RobertKK

The tank is one for very small people who suffer from dwarfism who can fight in tunnels. The others are just normal sized soldiers.

One could blame the photographer but a midget army is more interesting.

corner of hells

TheZohan wrote: »

What is that? A tank for ANTS?

Pffft ants are kept in ant farms , fish are kept in tanks........unless they are.soldier ants.

Nemeses

Sky King wrote: »

I am not a photographer but I am guessing that the image was taken with a huge zoom lens from a great distance

This has the effect of flatting images and making them 2 dimensional or cardboard cut-out like because the relative distance between the objects you are shooting is so much smaller than your distance to them

You see this effect in the red tops when they snap celebs from miles away doing whatever.

*Edit - this explains it better
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_distortion_(photography)

Pfft, Party pooper here has ruin all the fun with ze facts from Wiki..


:pac:

whirlpool

If someone could explain this, simply, before my head explodes that'd be swell.

Capt'n Midnight

Defence cuts.

The had to reduce everything by 25%

CrazyRabbit

Obviously this has something to do with oppressing the Palestinians, but I'm not sure what yet.

M5

Sky King wrote: »

I am not a photographer but I am guessing that the image was taken with a huge zoom lens from a great distance

This has the effect of flatting images and making them 2 dimensional or cardboard cut-out like because the relative distance between the objects you are shooting is so much smaller than your distance to them

You see this effect in the red tops when they snap celebs from miles away doing whatever.

*Edit - this explains it better
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_distortion_(photography)

Thats it, got there before me!

whirlpool

M5 wrote: »

Thats it, got there before me!

I still don't understand.

Anyone else?

Duiske

c_man wrote: »

It's a baby tank.

Its the ghosts of dead Palestinian babies creeping up on their Israeli asses.

Sky King

I still don't understand.

If you look at something far away through a pair of powerful binoculars (or in this case a telephoto lens) - the sense of 'depth' of the image is reduced.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Nybldgs.jpg

Potatoeman

kneemos wrote: »

Israeli,s have weird helmets..

Thats because they have to be circumcised.

mad muffin

kneemos wrote: »

Israeli,s have weird helmets..

I always wondered what's up with them mushroom caps…

whirlpool

Sky King wrote: »

If you look at something far away through a pair of powerful binoculars (or in this case a telephoto lens) - the sense of 'depth' of the image is reduced.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Nybldgs.jpg

But how does something that's closer look smaller?

Sky King

whirlpool wrote: »

But how does something that's closer look smaller?

It doesn't look smaller. It looks the correct size for a tank. Look at the guys sitting on it. Cover the top half of the screen. It looks normal.

The illusion is generated by the soldiers walking in the background which are further away but look bigger than they should be due to the distortion of perspective effect of zoom I described earlier.

Here is another image for you to consider. It is an exactly identical still life shot with different lenses

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Focal_length.jpg

Hootanany

Its like that spaceman picture near the Nuclear plant in Englang

whirlpool

Sky King wrote: »

It doesn't look smaller. It looks the correct size for a tank. Look at the guys sitting on it. Cover the top half of the screen. It looks normal.

I meant why does the tank look smaller than the guys in the background, when it's closer to the camera than they are.

Even ignoring the tank, and instead just taking the guys in the background and the guys in the foreground - the guys in the foreground look smaller than the guys in the background. That's what I'm not getting.

Sky King wrote: »

The illusion is generated by the soldiers walking in the background which are further away but look bigger than they should be due to the distortion of perspective effect of zoom I described earlier.

Here is another image for you to consider. It is an exactly identical still life shot with different lenses

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Focal_length.jpg

I'm really not getting it, and I'm not sure I'm going to, but thanks for trying

corner of hells

This could be a long evening.

Nodin

whirlpool wrote: »

I meant why does the tank look smaller than the guys in the background, when it's closer to the camera than they are.

Even ignoring the tank, and instead just taking the guys in the background and the guys in the foreground - the guys in the foreground look smaller than the guys in the background. That's what I'm not getting.



I'm really not getting it, and I'm not sure I'm going to, but thanks for trying

Don't mind him, its the Small Tank Unit they use against Bouncy Castle partys.

M5

whirlpool wrote: »

I still don't understand.

Anyone else?

Look at the photo here
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQQ75ACzD9NMjPrSF4hXtoW5sWhNNQU1NBpRMXEybirzshCUExnxZI_jcg

Note the size of the moon in frame vs real life. Its heavily zoomed in clearly. Then look at the wolf, it looks large, but we all know that its not the same size as the moon. Its the same effect as we wee in the tank photo.

Cork boy 55

A glitch in the Matrix.

Cee-Jay-Cee

It's was probably taken with one of those camera/lens that they use to take the pictures of a giant moon...like this

M5

CJC999 wrote: »

It's was probably taken with one of those camera/lens that they use to take the pictures of a giant moon...like this

you are correct, a long zoom lens probably 500mm or so

wendell borton

Nemeses wrote: »

Pfft, Party pooper here has ruin all the fun with ze facts from Wiki..


:pac:

TIL from it that the Nazi's also used the effect to make Hitler look taller.

whirlpool

M5 wrote: »

Look at the photo here
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQQ75ACzD9NMjPrSF4hXtoW5sWhNNQU1NBpRMXEybirzshCUExnxZI_jcg

Note the size of the moon in frame vs real life. Its heavily zoomed in clearly. Then look at the wolf, it looks large, but we all know that its not the same size as the moon. Its the same effect as we wee in the tank photo.

My brain is unable to use your explanation to understand it because you're comparing the size of a wolf with the size of the moon which are two completely different things, whereas the photo in the OP has people closer to the camera who look smaller than the people further away from the camera - and that is completely backwards, to me.

Look I don't know if my brain is defective or not but I'm really not getting it. It's possible my brain is defective. I got it on sale, it was a display model. Thanks for the efforts though!

RustyNut

whirlpool wrote: »

My brain is unable to use your explanation to understand it because you're comparing the size of a wolf with the size of the moon which are two completely different things, whereas the photo in the OP has people closer to the camera who look smaller than the people further away from the camera - and that is completely backwards, to me.

Look I don't know if my brain is defective or not but I'm really not getting it. It's possible my brain is defective. I got it on sale, it was a display model. Thanks for the efforts though!

God makes it happen.

Paco Rodriguez

I think it's just a small size tank and elevated soldiers. It does look strange at first though.

wendell borton

How focal length effects the perspective.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_wide_angle_lens#mediaviewer/File:Focal_length.jpg

sheesh

it could be a light tank used for scouting and thereby being small
you can only see half of the people in the tank so they appear smaller the soldiers that are walking have very large packs on their backs so they appear larger.

Because of the distance from where the image was taken the distance between the tank and the soldiers appears to be much further than it actually is. i.e. they are quiet close together the soldiers are just up a steep slope from the tank.

Sky King

Also, the soldiers on foot have huge backpacks on, making them look bigger than the guys in the tank.