to me it looks like some kind of amazing pixar animation or something... not really real. but i am going to have my eyes tested tomorrow haha, so maybe my judgement isn't to be trusted!
@andrewdearling You can believe that if you want to, but it isn't true. Being on the equator has no discernible effect on the size of the sun, nor does the atmospheric distortion. At best, these may increase the apparent size of the sun by a percent or so. The real reason the sun looks bigger at sunset is simply because of an optical illusion due to the sun having terrestrial reference points for your brain to think the sun is actually larger.
So to have the sun look as large as it does in the picture from the original post could only be done if a super-telephoto was used to magnify the sun, which is possible. But given the scale of the tree and waves in the water that is clearly not the case, and therefore obviously not real.
@marubozo I actually meant to say the horizon not the equator. And I didn't say It has an effect on the size of the sun, I said appearance. The sun will not change in size over our lifetime (but will within it's life time). Nor did I assert in my reply that this was the reason for the sun appearing so large in the picture. I was mearly responding to your post that the sun will never appear that large. As you said it does appear bigger due to an optical illusion where by our brains think that the sun must be larger on the horizon than when it's above it.
The clouds were clearly masked separately from the sky - and would a tree like this appear on a coast? Also, look at the strangely symmetrical rolling waves beneath the clouds. No way. So fake.
hmm...well, I was nosey...if you blow it up in an editing program, you can see that the sky doesn't even have the same size pixels as the other elements....it looks like the shot of the ocean and tree are seemline, but you can clearly see along the treeline (in very large view) that the clouds seem to have been added, also there are some questionable pixel combinations around the sun...so I have to agree FAKED ...also if you tineye this image there are about a dozen of them floating around the internet ; )
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So to have the sun look as large as it does in the picture from the original post could only be done if a super-telephoto was used to magnify the sun, which is possible. But given the scale of the tree and waves in the water that is clearly not the case, and therefore obviously not real.