I photographed these rock hyraxes in Namibia recently. There were dozens of them running around a cliff face near one of the lodges my photo tour group stayed in. Their den sites were in the shade, and therefore I didn't have the luxury of using a small lens aperture for depth of field because, first and foremost, I needed a fast shutter speed with the 100-400mm Canon lens on the 7D Mark II -- which gave me 640mm of focal length. So, when I shot this picture, I focused on the left hyrax and the one on the right wasn't tack sharp because it was a few inches farther away. I recognized that immediately, and I quickly took a second image and focused this time on the right animal. The animals were in the identical position in both pictures, so in Photoshop it was easy to clone from one photo to the other. In other words, I opened both shots on my desktop and cloned the sharp animal from one photo over the unsharp animal in the other. Now, both of the hyraxes are sharp.
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Jul 19, 2015, 2:30:36 PM
Frederic Hore - Great capture! Thanks for sharing your valued tips and techniques Jim. I'll pass this on to others!
Cheers from Montréal