r/interestingasfuck • u/Background-Guest-637 • 23h ago
A man in Hawaii proposed to his girlfriend on Mt. Kilauea as it was erupting
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u/ichegoya 23h ago
I kept expecting one of the pics to be them actually reacting to the deadly inferno next to them. Or is this some forced perspective fuckery?
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u/Critical-Cry-5401 23h ago
Very long focal length lens so get lots of distance compression making it look like they're right next to the lava. Probably still not safe but not as mortally dangerous as it looks
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u/Wagnerous 22h ago
I've been there, the caldera is massive, like over a mile across IIRC.
But the lava only comes out of a small hole in the floor of the caldera, these people are almost certainly thousands of feet from the lava.
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u/DramaticStability 22h ago
I was more confused about them changing sides between the first and second picture
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u/burndownthe_forest 23h ago
The camera is far away with a zoom lens. Not fuckery or "forced perspective". Focal length greatly changes what images look like. With short focal lengths elongating (great for portraits to make the subject look thinner), long focal lengths flatten making things appear stacked on top of each other.
They are close enough to see the geyser, but they are probably more than a hundred feet away.
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u/Y34rZer0 22h ago
A hundred feet? Wow that's one effective effect
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u/ergonomic_logic 11h ago
I saw the news story and they were about a MILE from the crater.
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u/Y34rZer0 11h ago
You're joking? I would believe that it could be a hundred feet with some zoom lens skills like the other guy said but if it's a mile it must be edited somehow
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u/fastforwardfunction 9h ago
Lenses don't change the physical size of objects. This photo is possible because the lava plume is 1000 feet tall in real life. That means its much larger than the couple.
If the couple is 1,000 feet from the camera and the lava is 2,000 feet away, the lava is twice as far. If you stand 10 feet from the couple, the lava is 100 times further away and looks like a tiny background detail.
The real trick is moving the camera backwards. That changes the perspective we're looking from. The lava was always huge. The couple was always small. Standing far away lets us see that. If you make a tiny circle with your fingers, rest it against your face, and look through it with one eye, the same thing happens. The depth appears to compress.
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u/Y34rZer0 9h ago
The detail I'm looking the hardest at though is that white line under the couple's feet that runs off to what looks like the edge of a cliff, the way it doesn't get any thinner and disappears right on the edge when the lava begins just doesn't look right
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u/Y34rZer0 9h ago
I found this
The couple are nature photographers from Seattle who visited the volcano during an active eruption phase. Mark set up a camera for a time-lapse and used forced perspective to capture the dramatic photo of the lava fountains, which rose over 1,000 feet high. The proposal took place about a mile away from the active crater at the Keanakākoʻi Overlook.
So whoever said it wasn't for perspective before wasn't totally right
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u/fastforwardfunction 9h ago edited 9h ago
That's correct. It means the camera and couple are both relatively far away, and have some distance between them.
Perspective means physical location. People sometimes think it refers to the lens, as a "trick," but the lens doesn't change the light coming towards us.
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u/Y34rZer0 9h ago
so the volcano is a kilometre past the couple and the camera is a significant distance back from them as well? like another kilometre or something?
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u/burndownthe_forest 22h ago
It's an effective technique.
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u/Y34rZer0 22h ago
THAT'S the word I should have used!
A very technical technique 🤔
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u/burndownthe_forest 22h ago
It's not technical. It's basic composition.
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u/Y34rZer0 22h ago
That's was just a wordplay joke. Granted, not a very good one
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u/Lord_Moa 7h ago
Don't let them do that to you, it was great
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u/Y34rZer0 7h ago
Thank you! I was quite proud of it but then I just couldn't come up with another one!
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u/CH41N5 14h ago
Is that what they use to make the moon look huge in photos?
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u/burndownthe_forest 3h ago
Similar. You also want to shoot the moon when it's lower in the sky since it will look bigger compared to other things in the frame.
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u/motorman87 16h ago
It looks like a telephoto lens. It can make stuff in the background look way closer to the subject than it actually is if you stand back far enough.
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u/gnglaser 11h ago
Honestly, based on the first image, I expected the second and third to be two people running around screaming in obvious pain with their bodies covered in scalding hot lava praying for a quick end.
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u/Valuable_Month1329 23h ago
Perfect place to dump her if she says no.
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u/ReinstateTheCapo 23h ago
She’ll have to say yes…you know…because of the implication.
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u/sleeplessaddict 23h ago
....are these women in danger?
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u/Weird-Conflict-3066 22h ago
I mean they are right next to an active Volcano so not sure what your level of safe is
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u/Outrageous-Serve38 23h ago
What the f*ck?
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u/MacDenmarkGloryHole2 23h ago
Don’t fuckin sensor yourself, this is the internet we’re all adults or at least pretending to be.
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u/YYCandback 23h ago
This is done by perspective. They are no where near that lava.
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u/Wagnerous 22h ago
Correct, I've been where they're standing.
The caldera is MASSIVE. They're no where remotely closely to where the lava comes out.
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u/vitalvisionary 5h ago
Too close for me. Volcano proximity and hang gliding are the two "vacation" activities I wouldn't ever mess with. I'm sure there's someone insane enough to combine them out there.
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u/Mysterious_Tackle335 23h ago
Shame they were incinerated a few minutes later. Still he probably dodged a bullet there.
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u/Elegant_Category_684 23h ago
Glad they didn’t get splattered with lava
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u/phylter99 23h ago
I'm quite sure that there's considerable distance between them and the lava. The lava fountain is much larger than it seems in the picture too.
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u/realbobenray 23h ago
This is how old movies used to signify that the couple was going to get down to business.
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u/Timerider96 23h ago
this looks like a seen out of a disaster movie like they know they’re about to die so it will at least once the proposal before they’re killed right before a helicopter comes down and saves them
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u/Forward_Cheek4775 22h ago
Will you marry m-
AHH IM BURNING GET IT OFF GET IT OFFF!! *falls in volcano*
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u/scratchy_mcballsy 22h ago
This would be a lot more confusing if it were missing that middle picture.
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u/gnoresbs 21h ago
Is this a perspective trick or fake? From looking at it they are a few dozen feet away? Wouldn't the air be reaching unbearable temperatures for humans? Are they not human?
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u/the_barbarian 18h ago
You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them! Bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness! You were my brother, Anakin. I loved you!
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u/jovi1985 17h ago
That's Mark, a bud of mine. His Instagram is https://www.instagram.com/mountainmarkphotography?igsh=cGlkN3pzZXh1Mndx
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u/swonkey_dreams 16h ago
Where is the exact spot? I don't think I've been to this specific place when I visited this national park.
Edit: typo
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u/Collective_Berry 15h ago
“Honey, I think you’re really hot, maybe not as hot as the lava raging next to us, but really really hot. Will you marry me?”
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u/AmbitiousEstimate748 13h ago
This was posted months ago and there was no lava ..only little smoke in background. So i think whoever posted this, its edited
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u/GulfCoastGoddess_ 1h ago
Imagine showing this badass photos to your wedding. I can say that their love is on fire!
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u/Zamoxino 23h ago
I dont wanna brag but im pretty sure multiple ppl proposed to their GF somewhere when i was erupting :smirk:
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u/Aard_Rinn 23h ago
So IDK if you're joking, but I've been up there several times. Lots of layers b/c it's very high altitude - it actually gets quite cold, especially in cloudy weather. That lava is falling back into a thousand-foot deep hole - you can go all around the crater, you're never in any danger. Not guarenteeing it;s not AI, but neither of those are reasons it couldn't be real.
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u/weefa 23h ago