I think that the author was trying to stand in the same position for both photos, but didn't have a wide enough lens on the DSLR to match the iPhone. It's actu

I think that the author was trying to stand in the same position for both photos, but didn't have a wide enough lens on the DSLR to match the iPhone. It's actually much weirder if the two photos were taken from different locations to approximately fill the same amount of the frame with the subject.