Dave,

...Four photos taken at different times under different lighting conditions. The first two are on the same background (a green plastic box lid) and each photo pretty accurately shows the colors of those two particular snakes. They really are that different in color. The difference in the shade of green is probably due to how my camera sees that color under different lighting conditions. I often crop photos when I download them to the computer. I only rarely tweak the colors, when I do it almost always is because the photo is more colorful than the snake really is and I then usually decrease the midtones to bring the photo back to a more accurate representation of what the snake really looks like. Agreed that the third photo is oversaturated. The fourth photo accurately shows what that snake looked like about the time of it's first shed. It is not a pretty color and I could have not shown that photo if I had wanted. The snake is even much more colorful now after shedding for the second time. I could have posted a photo of what it looks like now if my sole purpose was to wow people with pretty pictures. Instead I make an effort to show as much of the natural variation in colors as I can. OTOH, I have never taken much interest in photography and so my photographic skills are lacking, which is strange in that one of my brothers is a professional photographer.

Jeff

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