Saturday, September 06, 2025 | By: Jim Zuckerman
I posted this picture 8 years ago when I first took it, but I'm showing it again because it remains one of the most unique challenges I've had in Photoshop. This is an Indian one horned rhinoceros mother and calf. I captured them in Chitwan National Park, Nepal. First the mother crossed the road in front of my vehicle, and then the baby followed. But . . . the young calf instinctively crossed the road on the other side of its mother, using her massive bulk as protection, as a buffer, from the Land Rover and the strange creatures in it. That would not have been a good picture with the calf completely out of sight except, perhaps, for its feet. When the mother was crossing the road, there was a gap about 3 or 4 feet between her rump and the bushes on the left. When the baby crossed, I could see it but only small portions at a time through the gap. I fired continuously at 14 fps ( that was the fastest frame rate I had at the time) to capture sections of the calf because that's what was visible to me. I wasn't sure I could do it, but when I got home, I composited 5 different sections from the head to the tail. That gave me the whole animal, and then I pasted it in front of the mother. This is the picture I wanted, of course, but without Photoshop I never would have gotten it.
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