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When you guys take pictures of your leos, do you ever use the flash? I assumed the flash may be bad for leos eyes since they are nocturnal. However, I can never seem to get the lighting right to take decent pictures of Jak, but maybe that's because I haven't been using the flash. Any other tips for taking better pics would be much appreciated too. Thanks

Sean

My experience is that the flash tends to wash out the colours.
I took this pic at night with the main light in my room on (60 watt bulb in the centre of the room) with no flash. It's a 3.1MP camera.

Still can't get a decent shot in her tank though...

>>When you guys take pictures of your leos, do you ever use the flash? I assumed the flash may be bad for leos eyes since they are nocturnal. However, I can never seem to get the lighting right to take decent pictures of Jak, but maybe that's because I haven't been using the flash. Any other tips for taking better pics would be much appreciated too. Thanks
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>>Sean
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Blaine

0.0.1 High Yellow Juvenile Leo (Echo)

On a digital camera, when I use flash, it does wash out the colors alot, so I take a piece of kleenex and fold it in half and hold it over the flash as I take the pic. It still lights up the pic real good but it doesn't show as brightly. This works real good for me!
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~Melissa~
1.3 Leopard geckos (Guido, Oasis, Gypsy, Marli)
1.0 Bearded dragon (Pharoah)
1.0 Hog Island Boa (Michelangelo)
0.0.1 Crested Gecko (Picasso)
1.0 Ferret (da Vinci)
0.1 Chinchilla (Eevie)
1.0 Chinese Praying Mantis (Sid)

Melissas Menagerie

I use the flash with relatively little washout problems. When it's important to judge colors though, I often place a color wheel (you can get these at paint stores) in the shot when I take a picture. This way someone looking at the picture has some standard to judge washout / enhancements.

I've never noticed any adverse reactions to a flash before.
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1.0.0 Sandfire Tiger Bearded Dragon
0.1.0 Ball Python (nice yellowish normal)
0.0.1 Sinaloan Milksnake
1.0.0 Patternless Leo
0.1.0 High Yellow Leo
0.1.0 (Super?) Hypo Tangerine Carrot-tail Baldy Leo

this was taking with a old 1.3 megapixel with macro mode on and flash fill.

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1.3 Leopard Gecko's
1.0 mali uromastyx
0.0.3 tokay's(adults unsexed)

looks comfy.

Take a look at this thread .. I took these pics with my 3 year old 2.1megapixel Sony digital camera in macro mode, with low flash...