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Hello everyone,

We just wanted to share some photos of our newest addition... a male Super Pastel Jungle.

We would also like to take a moment to thank Greg & Jacki Graziani for all of their help and consideration during the transaction for this beautiful snake!

Thanks again...

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Sean Bradley
Owner : EbN
www.ExoticsByNature.com
www.BallPythonMorphs.com
www.CornSnakeMorphs.com

WOW

Its a beautiful snake for someone with a beautiful girlfriend....lol

Bryan

I guess we are kinda related now because I have his full brother. Does this mean we have to exchange gifts at Christmas? I know...you can send him that nice clown you have in your collection and I'll send you some good Canadian Maple Syrup.

Congrats guys!

MJ
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Not a bad idea... the Christmas thing! I love canadian maple syrup!!

But love that Clown so much I'd give up eating anything containing sugar before giving him up! Sorry buddy...

Thanks for the kind words...
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Sean Bradley
Owner : EbN
www.ExoticsByNature.com
www.BallPythonMorphs.com
www.CornSnakeMorphs.com

nm

Nice!

Jim Perron
Python Passion Reptiles

np

Now that is a super yup a super. stunning is a word on that one.........
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RicK @ BbI

Ball Boutique,Inc.
The home of the singing snakes!

seriuosly I only have two dreams..to hatch out a super pastel and to have a couple pie balds in my collection. Great Super
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0.1 Leos
1.1 Corn snakes (1 Lav & 1 Ghost)
0.1 Banan California King
0.0.1 Childrens python
1.1 Brazilian Rainbow boa
1.0 Rat (as pet not food)
1.2 Ball pythons (1pastel 2 normals)
"whats with you and all those dang reptiles?"

Sean,You keep amazing me with the collection you have.THats one beautiful snake.Kevin Stoltz

I appreciate the compliments!!

Thanks again...

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Sean Bradley
Owner : EbN
www.ExoticsByNature.com
www.BallPythonMorphs.com
www.CornSnakeMorphs.com

Congratulations...

1st, i would like to say that its a beautiful Ball. But my question is to the photography of the Ball. Could you give me an idea on what you did? Are you using like black velvet for the snake to be on? Also, what kind of light are you using? Thanks very much. I ask because i am finally going to photograph my entire collection next week. Thanks... John
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0.1 Albino
1.0 Pastel
1.0 (F1)Banded Ball
1.1 100% Het Piebald
1.1 100% Het Butterscotch Ghost
1.1 100% Het Yellow Ghost
2.18 Normal Balls

Hi John,

Thanks for the compliments on the animal

As for the photography, I took those photos using my Nikon D100 with a 105mm macro lens.

The snake was photographed on black velvet which in my opinion, works great. The only thing with the black velvet though is that it is difficult to photograph animals at an angle, i.e. not straight down at the animal. The reason for this is that it seems like the velvet reflects too much of the light at an angle and you get a kind of washed out effect instead of the nice solid black background.

For lighting, I just use my speedlight which attaches to my camera. I use a Sunpak 5000AF. I have the camera setting on aperature so I can dial up the aperature and have a clear and focused shot of the entire animal as opposed to a shot where the head is in focus but the rest of the animal is blurry. Depending on the subject, I will vary the aperature setting on the flash. For animals like Albinos and this Super Pastel, I dialed the aperature setting on the flash to a lower number so it didn't wash out the coloration of the animal. I believe I had my camera aperature set at around 16 and the flash aperature at around 11 or 13.

If you don't have a speedlight or find that the flash on your camera washes out the coloration of your subject, you can try setting up a mini studio using a full spectrum flourescent light. I find that this works quite well. I'm actually going to try using that sort of setup while taking a picture at an angle to see if it'll change the amount of light that is reflected back.

I hope this information helps. Let me know if you have any other questions...

Thanks,
Celia
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Celia Chien

Celia Chien Photography
My Snakes

www.ExoticsByNature.com
www.BallPythonMorphs.com
www.CornsnakeMorphs.com

Thank you, i have the Nikon D100 as well but use the Nikon SB800 for my speedlight. Thanks for the tips... John
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0.1 Albino
1.0 Pastel
1.0 (F1)Banded Ball
1.1 100% Het Piebald
1.1 100% Het Butterscotch Ghost
1.1 100% Het Yellow Ghost
2.18 Normal Balls

Glad to help! When I was first looking at speedlights, the two I was debating between was the Sunpak 5000 and the Nikon SB-80DX. Post some of the photos you take...I look forward to seeing them!

Thanks,
Celia
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Celia Chien

Celia Chien Photography
My Snakes

www.ExoticsByNature.com
www.BallPythonMorphs.com
www.CornsnakeMorphs.com

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Thanks again...
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Sean Bradley
Owner : EbN
www.ExoticsByNature.com
www.BallPythonMorphs.com
www.CornSnakeMorphs.com

BEAUTIFUL...
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J & H Reptiles
www.jhreptiles.homestead.com

www.serpentsden.com