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Here's the next installment with still a few more to go.

First up - Dan V. MSP's, this is the female and I had a hard time with the red. On my screen, I got it as accurate as possible, but still isn't right.

The male, same problem with the red. I get good results with accurate color if I'm shooting in adobeRGB. I think this time I had it set to something else. I'll have to check on it and maybe repost them.

Here's a hold back from my melanistic female

R.Bates female

another one from my melanistic female

another sibling to the one above

last years young from the pairing of the two DV's above. Held onto this one to get it eating better.

I can't remember the guys name off the top of my head but this was supposed to be from vivid lineage. Male

More still to come,

Brad

Your photo's are fantastic and they are all really beautiful.
I especially like the ones you held back from you melanistic female. I think the first hold back would have to be my favorite if I had to choose. Thanks for all the pic's.
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Michelle
All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful:
The Lord God made them all.

Very nice! I love the one you held back from your melanistic female. And I like this one:

I hope you dont mind me re-posting it.

Check your e-mail!
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Beautiful snakes Brad. That melanistic gene is definately a plus. I have a melanistic male on breeder loan to Michelle right now.
Ken

As mentioned already, those are some great looking snakes.

I have a question about the photographing technique though. Could you scoot the camera back a bit so we can see the set up, and then the other question is, how do you handle the animals so they settle down enough to take a few shots?

Thanx for sharing!

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Tom

"The more people I meet, the more I like my snakes"

Well, it's never really easy and takes some effort to calm them down and set them up. Many of these recent pics are an effort just to snap a shot off for the archives. I haven't placed any serious emphasis on taking a shot of a perfectly posed animal.

With that in mind, I do place some sort of container, or in this case, a clay pot over the snake to allow it to calm down for a minute. I'll then lift the object in hopes of the snake sitting still and well posed. Sometimes the pose comes out perfect, but most of the time not so much. Some gentle nudges in the direction I want it to go can sometimes work. Often though, they just want to bolt. If that happens, I set them up again and again until I either get what I want or the snake wins and I just take whatever shot I can get.

For my setup, I have a table in the middle of my snake room with various rocks for posing animals on. For all of these recent shots I used that big slab of lime stone.

Thanks for the interest,

Brad

Thank you so much for bothering to go through the trouble to answer my question so well. It's exactly what I had wanted to see. Keep snapping pix!
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Tom

"The more people I meet, the more I like my snakes"

great looking thayeri Brad. If you need me to come over and take a few off your hands let me know.LOL..
Shannon