Probably one of the most photographed "views" on Earth. Hopefully, I made it enough of "my own" to make it stand out from the crowd. Anyone who has ever been to this spot, or anywhere around Lake Kawaguchi knows that Mt Fuji is large, in charge, and looming over everything. The mountain is an imposing force. Yet, any shot from here requires using a wide lens to capture the Pagoda, and thus the mountain always feels underwhelming in the distance.
So while this is a composite, I feel that it reflects the reality of being in this location much better than if I were to just have taken a single shot with a wide lens. I feel the mountain should be as imposing in photos as it is in reality. I understand many purists would "scoff" at this interpretation and will ramble on for eternity about whether something is "photography or digital art." To that, I would say that everything you do with a camera is a distortion of reality, even your choice of lenses because in this case, a SOOC camera shot would not reflect the "reality" of being there.
shot on my GFX 100ii. The foreground was shot on a 24mm Tilt-shift. Then I got my 50 -150 and took a telephoto shot of just the mountain from the same location at the same time to have a larger shot of just Fujisan. I blended the two together in Photoshop replacing Fuji from the wide shot with the larger mountain from the one taken with the longer lens.