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I needed to get some photos for some adds so; I tried to “diffuse” the flash to see if I could get any decent pics that way. Most were blurry. All were a little dark. I was also messing with the “Macro” setting; the lens is not a true macro lens though so I think the macro setting is of limited use. The MSP is one I bought this summer, her pic is not for any adds, I just don’t have any good pics of her. I had too lighten her picture up, I hope it is not too faded now. She has incredible color (IMHO). I wanted to get pics of a few more babies too but they are all shedding, I got a couple very interesting babies with wild blood from Mike Bodner but they are shedding - maybe next week.

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Rick
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Rick, I think they look good. Thanks for sharing them. Very pretty snakes.
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Michelle

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Rick
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they look great. here is one of my males

Even including the bullseye on its neck.....Ill have to take a pic of it and post it tonight.....Its feeding night tonight.
Toby
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i'll check it out i got him at the expo in daytona

Those are good pics =)

You didn't lighten em up too much at all, the colors look great.

is your camera a point-and-shoot, or an SLR?
you mentioned diffusing your flash, so I'd guess it's an SLR?

If you want the whole thing in focus more, use a smaller F-stop (higher number f-18, f-22, etc)...it'll increase your depth of field. In your 3rd pic, with the snake's head curled more over it's body, the foreground and backround are both a little out of focus, because the depth of field was so narrow (wide aperture, low number f-stop)

If it's a point-N-shoot, try the landscape setting, and see if that helps.

Hope some of this helps =)

Kevin

>>is your camera a point-and-shoot, or an SLR?
>>you mentioned diffusing your flash, so I'd guess it's an SLR?
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>>If you want the whole thing in focus more, use a smaller F-stop (higher number f-18, f-22, etc)...it'll increase your depth of field. In your 3rd pic, with the snake's head curled more over it's body, the foreground and backround are both a little out of focus, because the depth of field was so narrow (wide aperture, low number f-stop)

Thanks Kevin, Bob has been telling me that too.

Everytime I think I have it set I change something and I loose what I set, I'm sure I'm messing up something. This time, when I switched to macro the camera setting went back to the default auto settings.

I like my 25 year old Pentax SLR, I manually set what I want and it works. This digital SLR is smarter than I am (not hard to do).
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Rick
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I gotta say you are getting much better with that camera. Is that 1st pic a Bodner baby? It sure looks like it to me. All three pics are a great improvement over most of your others IMHO.

I think this one might be related to that 1st MSP of yours.

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Vichris

Vichris Variables

>>I gotta say you are getting much better with that camera. Is that 1st pic a Bodner baby? It sure looks like it to me. All three pics are a great improvement over most of your others IMHO.
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Thanks Chris, I still need to figure out all the electronic functions. I should probably find an 8 year old to show me how to use it (lol).

I bought the MSP from Bruce Skipper in Daytona, he said it was from vivid. They could be related but I don't know.
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Rick
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