These are two genets I photographed in Namibia. They are not commonly seen, so I was lucky to get this shot. I used a 100-400mm telephoto, and because the faces of the two animals were not on the same plane, the genet closest to the camera was tack sharp but the other one was slightly soft due to the shallow depth of field from an f/6.3 lens aperture. Therefore, in Photoshop I used the lasso tool to select only the face of the genet on the right and sharpened it using Filter > sharpen > unsharp mask. I then selected only the eyes of the same animal and repeated the sharpening. This helped a lot. I took this picture six years ago when I owned, for a short time, the Canon 7D Mark II. Noise was a big problem with this camera, so I stayed under 1000 ISO most of the time. Had I taken this picture today with the Canon R5, instead of shooting this with 800 ISO, I would have raised the ISO to 6400 so I could close the lens aperture to f/16.
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