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Just wanted to let you know that I bought a beautiful male ghost from your special project from you at the Daytona expo in 05. Bred him for the first time to an unrelated female this year. Got 10 pretty eggs. Didn't feel like his half sister was quite thick enough to breed yet this year. He is so PINK! I hope some of that comes through in the offspring.

Thanks Kathy, the male is really stunning.
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1.2 Ghost Corns, Beetlejuice, Casper and Spooky
1.1 Charcoal het pewter, Smokey and Flame
1.1 Hypo het lavender, Rosy and Rocko
1.0 Anery, Goku
0.1 Amel, Sunny
2.0 Tabby Cats, Daddycat and his son Brat
0.1 Australian Shepherd, Angel

Gypsy

I'm not Kathy Love - but good luck anyway
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I decided my old sig was too big.

OK, You can't tease us like that with out posting pictures of the male LOL

Good luck with them.

Dave
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PIJAC Member

Thank you both for your good wishes.

As for picture, I have been trying for a year to get pictures of my brood, but I cannot get their colors to come out anywhere near true. I don't have a great expensive camera, but it is quite a nice digital cannon. Apparently it works for everything but snakes, lol. Beetlejuice's pink does not show up at all on camera so far, and the amel brightness does not POP like she does in person. I am still trying and if I get any simblance of the true colors, I will definitely post them.

These are some bad picks from when he was a baby. Sorry.

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1.2 Ghost Corns, Beetlejuice, Casper and Spooky
1.1 Charcoal het pewter, Smokey and Flame
1.1 Hypo het lavender, Rosy and Rocko
1.0 Anery, Goku
0.1 Amel, Sunny
2.0 Tabby Cats, Daddycat and his son Brat
0.1 Australian Shepherd, Angel

Gypsy

I wasn't trying to be rude to everyone else on this forum, I have always enjoyed your posts, pics and advice. I was just trying to let Kathy know that the snakes I got from her in 2005 were doing well and breeding. Thank you all for all your help over the past couple of years. I don't post often, you no-one probably remembers me from one time to the next.
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1.2 Ghost Corns, Beetlejuice, Casper and Spooky
1.1 Charcoal het pewter, Smokey and Flame
1.1 Hypo het lavender, Rosy and Rocko
1.0 Anery, Goku
0.1 Amel, Sunny
2.0 Tabby Cats, Daddycat and his son Brat
0.1 Australian Shepherd, Angel

Gypsy

I have never been able to see the subtle pink tones in some ghosts or pink snows (in photos), no matter how well Bill's photos turn out. I am just never happy with those pink colors! Just means people will have to come visit you, or you can take them to a show to show them off.

Sure hope you get some pretty babies!

Thanks! The thing is, his pink is not all that subtle. At times his pink really pops, but not on camera. Hopefully 2009 I'll have enough success with my breeders to take them to the Daytona show. I will definitely see you there this year though. I really, really, need a nice pair of blood reds, too. Didn't see any on your available page. If I have enough green, I want an okeetee too! Ooops, now I'm getting greedy. Did find a nice little wc outside my door, though!
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1.2 Ghost Corns, Beetlejuice, Casper and Spooky
1.1 Charcoal het pewter, Smokey and Flame
1.1 Hypo het lavender, Rosy and Rocko
1.0 Anery, Goku
0.1 Amel, Sunny
2.0 Tabby Cats, Daddycat and his son Brat
0.1 Australian Shepherd, Angel

Gypsy

One trick I have learned trying to capture the true colors on my Rainbow Boa's is to use either several backgrounds of different colors in a photo shoot or to use a single background that has a wide range of colors and shades within it. The digital camera, at least the ones I've used, changes the overall tinting, tone, etc.. based on the color/tone of the point it is focused on.

For example I'll use a recent picture I took which caught Navels actual coloration. This picture was taken aiming at a spot in the moss to the right of his head.

When I aimed at other points in the moss Navel looked like a big brown snake with no orange at all. Even the moss looked like it was all brownish and drying out.

But when I aimed at Navel himself he came out looking solid orange without any brown tint at all and the moss if anything was a slightly brighter shade.

A even better example is the picture series in this post by Dave Collings of several of his boas. He shows individual snakes in the same lighting and camera but on different colored backgrounds one after another. Many of them look like completely different animals just due to the background color.
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1540101,1540101

The advantage of a multi-color/tone background is it let's you find the target that makes the camera adjust to show a snakes true colors without having to move the snake at all.

Also another thing that makes a huge difference but I assume you already do is try both full spectrum lighting and natural(outdoors) lighting for pics.

Just an idea for the future.

Sean.
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1.1 BRB
1.1 Triple Het TPRS's
0.1 Silver TPRS
1.1 Amel Bloodred Corns
0.1 Abbott Okeetee Corn
0.1 Blizzard Bloodred Corn
1.1 Thayeri Kingsnakes
0.1 Reeve's Turtle
0.2 Amstaff's
1.0 Pudytat