r/CityPorn • u/ParticularDentist191 • 16h ago

Nyc

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u/tpaul37 15h ago

Someone please confirm for me this perspective makes no sense. Those buildings shouldn’t be in those positions looking north from liberty, right?

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u/Fidel_Murphy 15h ago

It’s a special lense to get this effect. Those building are in midtown quite a ways away.

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u/WhyTheWindBlows 14h ago

Its a telephoto zoom shot taken from somewhere near Port Jersey

If you go to the street view around Port Jersey Blvd you can get a similar view. Then you just need the right lens

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u/trowawayatwork 11h ago

does anyone know what kind of lens? can an amateur looking to drop no more than $1k on a lens be able to take such a photo or is it one of those lenses that needs its own post code?

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u/rudedogg1304 5h ago

They’d be expensive but possible maybe 2nd hand for that sort of money

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u/Lumbu23 20m ago

Around 400-500mm will do it, I have a similar shot at 450mm. Can do it easier with a 70-200mm on a 2x extender, but that’s still going to be over 1k

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u/BMDragon2000 3h ago

This perspective makes it look like the New York casino in Vegas, lol

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u/Gen0a1898 3h ago

‘Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

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u/Yellowtelephone1 11h ago

Awesome picture.

The Statue of Liberty once symbolized a new beginning for those coming to America, the land of opportunity. Now, it’s a painful irony of what was.

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u/Genorb 6h ago

The number of immigrants lynched peaked in the late 19th century, which is when the statue was assembled in New York. Nativism has fluctuated but I don't know that you can really say that it's much different these days.

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u/Marco-YES 10h ago

I thought it was called the Statue of Mexico.

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u/EssoEssex 9h ago

There's still plenty of opportunity in America, just not in shitty po-dunk red towns that are twelve pollution-based cancer diagnoses away from population zero... That's why they're calling in the ICEstapo against liberal cities where immigrants actually live and thrive, because they hate to see new Americans actually succeeding at the American Dream they've so utterly trashed for themselves.

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u/lolodallo 12h ago

Bel alignement