A telephoto lens was used which gives the impression that they are closer to the wave and makes the wave look bigger. Photographers will usually will pick up on that very quickly.
It may look like one big wall of a wave, but those are multiple, smaller waves behind each other. Camerahuman is just at a very good spot and filming from a good angle.
@@sea-pinl do also, watching the Cribba just around the headland off little fistral is the biggest wave l know locally, that gets huge and surfed, but looking down on it from the hut on the headland really adds to it's size, with the righ lenses on a camera especially. Go and have a look off the cliffs at St Nazaire in Portugal and even with no lenses it looks horrifyingly huge. Over 100ft with the right conditions.🙂🙂
Imagine all the fish in there going "Whoooaaahhhh shiiiiiiiiiit...." as the waves crash down. There has to be daredevil fish who like riding the waves like people enjoy roller coasters 😂
It's just the lens and and distance that makes these look bigger than they are. Trust me, I live in Cornwall and have worked on Fistral Beach for over 25 years. These are 20 foot waves in reality, no bigger. We get them in winter on Fistral. They still look impressive though and are big.
Trust you? If I say 50:ft I trust me to stay far away. Since that's what's been happing in Hawaii this yr & canceled surf board contest.......says trust No Human....those Greedy Freaks Of Nature Didn't bother to tell the boarders from around the world about the 50ft+ swells & took their money knowing the same just happened on black Friday but Slammed inland into the hotels & highways ..... Trust No Man!!!
These videos take my breath away coz i can close my eyes and still feel them... no words can describe how little and helpless you feel when in their presence.
@@papipelukita1355 thank you. it looks magnificient. since I was a child I have had a fear, love of the ocean. Total respect. Especially living in The Netherlands along the sea. One day if a big whoosh takes me back home.. it will be a good death.
@@johnpacella9519 LoL, we saw the same movie. Question; How many times did you have to watch it, before you realized it wasn't trash, but actually a really good movie?
Video of those big oil platforms in the North Sea are terrifying. Those things are not small and those waves are crazy. Terrifying is a great word for it. Incredible amounts of energy in those waves.
No doubt they're big waves but the way this is shot and edited is deliberate to make us think they're far larger. It's the BBC. A news article that says "Waves Spotted In The Ocean" would hardly get any clicks.
It would be nice to see what's happening at normal speed instead of slow motion. The slo-mo makes it look like the waves are more massive than they really are.
I live near Noyo Harbor, CA. The locals will flock to the elevated ocean overlooks whenever 20 - 30 foot swells hit the coast. The waves can double in height when they cross the reef so you need to be up well above that. Fortunately it usually happens when there are few visitors to our area. Still there are too many people drown from being swept off the beaches when the big waves crash in.
@@andyjennings15 Because of a reef that surrounds much of the island, we do not see waves like this. One of those would wash away much of the island infastructure I would think.
Reminds me of how intelligent I was as a teenager in Illinois. What's the first thing you do when you hear a tornado siren. Open your window and climb onto the roof, of course. 😂
I'm not sure i could just stand there. The Japanese people are so brave. They've endured some of the worst natural disasters and they are still standing strong.❤
It reminds me back in the day in Cornwall in portreath beach ( I believe you spell it like that or at least pronounce it like that) . Waves were so big they came all the way up coving whole beach crashing into and over the two big walls stacked like steps and over into the parking lot. My mum almost lost me that day when she spotted me by the edge of the top wall by the railing standing on a upside down frisbee waiting for the waves to come so I could catch a ride but she ran over and scooped me up in time. I lost the frisbee that day but yea.. good times. There was even a surfer out in those waves that looked about that size lol if anyone knows portreath beach close to or in Redruth /Penzance leave a comment. It would be nice hearing from someone from my hometown area. Maybe even my friend Leon Watson Sheppard . Miss him and everyone over there. This also happened about 24-26 years ago. Im 31 now
Filmmakers have been pulling the very-long-lens plus foreground-shot-at-distance trick on waves since at least Flaherty's 'Man of Aran' in the early 1930s. Not to say these aren't big waves, just that very specific camerawork is being used to hugely exaggerate their appearance. Pity to see the BBC presenting it without context.
@@senenrey851 no es nazaré .... es cape corwell en inglaterra ..... nazaré es muy pero muy mas aterrador ..... ''eu sou da nazaré '',sei o que digo hermano ^^
The sheer power of nature leaves me in complete awe when viewing things like this!! Thank you to the person who filmed & posted this so the rest of us could see it too.❤
Reminds me of the North Atlantic when I was on the USS Deyo stationed out of Charleston SC. The ship, a destroyer would literally disappear between the swells like a fisherman’s cork.
The videographer makes the waves look bigger without adding context. There's very little comparison to the surrounding environment. What's on the vid is just a detail, and the movement is at about .25% speed.
Oh so the "zoom lens" affected the water but not the people or the scaffolding? Because those people look the right size for how far away they are from the pov.
@Kratos-eg7ez Actually, it is a matter of perspective. You're looking down at the water from a high vantage point, not straight at the water from sea level. You're seeing more the distance between waves than you are the actual height of them.
These are very large waves but not nearly as large as the camera angle makes them out to me. They would be normal storm size waves for any ship out in the atlantic. The difference is that out at sea they don't crest and curl over the top.
@sea-pin ❤️❤️❤️🤣🤣🤣🤣 that’s really cool! I went to Florida a few years ago, and realized I don’t like sand, the beach or the water. I’d still be on that boarder hugging that “line”.
No it's not possible at cape I live near there it's got massive rocks underneath and breaking the surface. It has a slip for boats. Beautiful place really wild! There's a pool tho at mid tide it's lovely to swim in
Do they actually look that big or is that because of the zoom effect of the camera? Even the worst tsunami waves didn’t look like that, these waves are monstrous!
