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As some of you know, I have been struggling with trying to adequately and correctly photograph my bairdi for a while now.

Here's a recent attempt -

Here is what my female really looks like -

yet here is what she looks like straight out of my digital camera -

Here's a reasonable portrayal of my male -

and here he is as my digicam chooses to portray him -

I always wonder when I see bairdi pics online exactly what they look like in life. Mine are still stunning animals (and certainly my color corrected pics do them no justice), but they just aren't as spectacular as my camera tries to make them. It always oversaturates towards the red end of the spectrum.

Just another excuse to buy myself the new Minolta D7 digital SLR when it comes out in a few months!

Both are WC locality snakes that decided not to breed this year, damn them!
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Chris Harrison

dang chris....NICE!!! I just HOPE mine turn out like that

That minolta is a nice camera! I want to get a digital SLR...hahahahaha with the price of this cage im building thats not gonna happen anytime soon lol.
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The reason mainstream thought is thought of as a stream is because it's so shallow. -George Carlin

Battling ignorance one stupid person at a time.

Current snakes:
0.1 Licorice Stick Black Rat(Lola)
1.0 Neonate Black Rat (het for Lic Stk's) (Frankie)
1.1 Texas Bairds ("Bill" and "The Bride aka Beatrix Kiddo" )

Chris -
I remember the first time I saw one of your posted pics there was something else in the picture that we knew what the color and shade should be. You corrected the item to be what it truly is and then the baird would look like what you are seeing.
My digital does the same thing yours does on most of my bairds. I correct the pic on my image mixer before I post any of them for others to see. Of course, I usually mention to people with bairds to put them under indirect sunlight and you will see a different colored snake. Indirect sunlight is the closest way to seeing exactly what the baird a person has looks like IMHO.
I was just going to post a response one on of your posts asking about if that pair bred this season. I still have a pic of the male that you took that Shannon Hiatt asked you if he could send a copy to me. I was trying to see as many pics as I could when I wrote the spec sheet on bairds.
Thanks for posting pics Chris.

Terry Parks

Here's the corrected shot with my POS camera (Olympus C700-UZ) and a shot with my father's Nikon 800 that I took the night I found him .

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Chris Harrison

It's not just the bairdis.
I have that problem with almost everything I photograph with my digital camera.
Snow and ghost corns are hard to capture accurately also.
I just take them over to photoshop and click on auto equalize. This will usually give a more accurate representation but it sometimes takes some manipulations to get the pictures as close to "true" as I can.
It is very rare to get a photo that doesn't need something done to correct it.
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Rosie:

Sam:

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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
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