I took this photo in January 2014 at the retirement party for Bill Daniels, after 55 years (!) at NASA/Goddard. Through serendipity, he is perfectly framed in front of the big fan (this was not at all planned!). I took a few frames and a waiter also took a shot of everyone (thus including me), but his shot was seriously crooked. It's always hard in a group shot to get everyone looking at the camera (or not blinking) at the same time. So, in this case Laura had glanced off camera in one shot where everyone else was OK. I thus Photoshopped just her eyes into the final image. I also added myself (in the spot where I really was, but simply in another shot in the sequence). You can see the results below.
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Bill Daniels retirement, Jan 2014, © David Friedlander
Here's another example. Rafael happened to be blinking in the Sun in this March 2011 photo taken at Johns Hopkins University with his brother Noah and cousin Sophie.
In another photo taken literally one second before that, his eyes were open but the other two did not look as good. Simply copying his eyes alone to another layer made all the difference.
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Here is a 200% crop of the same image. When done carefully, you cannot tell even at this magnification.
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