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I'm told my lighting adds "Yellow"... OH WELL.. Its a normal 100watt lightbulb in an 8.5" dome hanging around 30" above the snake... Same type of lighbulbs I have lighting my whole apartment... Is that not real color enough?? I guess "Yellow" is added to pix when they are taken of myself also then, right??? This is how I see her when I take her out of the enclosure... So BLAH!

Beautiful RED tail..

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Joe Lydon
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Randall L Turner Jr.
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Good looking snake. Have you tried a aquarium fluorescent bulb? It will remove the yellow tinge and give you more true to life color because of the spectrum it covers. That is what I use when I do set-up for pics and it works pretty well. Just a thought. BTW...I have crappy lighting as well.
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This is how I look at lighting. Do your best to get a good representation and don't worry about wether it is professional looking. Most of us can tell when a picture has been doctored so that threir snakes look more red or whatever. When it comes down to it, the ones trying to pass off their animals for something other than what they are really lose out.

Great looking boa. Very clean and I love the colors it has. Don't worry so much about the lighting.

bigdnutz

Thanks for the nice comments.. By the way, that is an AWESOME shot you have taken.. You must have a great camera... When I get some extra cash, I'll get my hands on one. See ya.
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Joe Lydon
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You said that the lighting provided is from a normal 100W bulb, right. Your run of the mill light bulb is an incandescent bulb. It has a tungsten filament. Due to the inherent properties of tungsten, it gives off a "warmer" color temperature of light than midday sunlight does. In short, it makes everything appear more yellow. Your eyes will normally compensate for different lighting conditions, but the camera doesn't know how to. There are three things you can do to take a more "natural" picture. The first two are easy. The third requires a decent digital camera and some knowledge of how to change settings on it.

1) Take your pictures outside, or

2) Take your pictures indoors under a "daylight" type of light for more accurate color representation, or

3) If your camera allows you to change the "white balance" setting, do it. By default, the white balance is set to auto, which usually doesn't work very well. Trust me. Change it to tungsten, then take your picture under the same lighting conditions as before. I'd love to see how the picture comes out.

By the way, take a look at the other white balance settings. Use fluorescent under fluorescent lighting (you know, the long tube lights). Use sunlight, cloudy, etc. under those type of outdoor conditions.

Hope this helps,
Tyler

Thanks alot for the detailed information... I'm sure it will help me out ALOT.. I'll get some more pix up soon.
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Joe Lydon
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