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Heh, so thats what MACRO does :D

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I finally found the macro feature on my cam, never actually realized that the flower icon had a use :bounce:

Anyways, here are so much much better pics of my 05 snow male, Hidalgo which I just took, I'll get better oens with better light and such, not relying on the flash (very unreliable) when he's fully digested his fuzzy and is active.

Any comments welcomed..
 

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Very cool snow. They are hard to photograph. If your camera's like mine, and you try to use macro without flash, you'll probably find that you lose decent auto-focus. I've found that a combination of decent lighting, macro, and flash yields some decent results. I know very little about cameras or photography though, so maybe there are better options. :shrugs:
 
I've been lucky with my snow- he's a real good trouper so I can bounce a 600w off an umbrella an' come up with some nice shots.

the softer light from a bounce helps cut down on the white glare and shows off his patterns- but at $15o it probably isn't the best option for photos of a pet snake ;]
 
thanks for the advice. MY sister is a photographer and gets her hands on professional lights and studios and such often however only once has she taken a true interest in catching Hidalgo on camera, she is more into greyscale as it is. I figure that if I take an old lamp and a clear bulb and somehow deflect the light from the lamp to sometihing abnd back to the photgraphy area, I can manage a nice amount of light and somehow get the focus perfect. Really if I had taken him out of his cage, I'm sure itd be much better, but at the moment he's well into digestion and shouldn't be truly disturbed... he seemed perplexed when I snapped somewhere around 30 shots of him.. Id show you a couple of good ones with him looking at the cam, but the flash went off the glass rather than straight down and the lighting is HORRIBLE..
 
I totally understand. My guy is in a large 30gal with so many hides it's absurd, but all he wants to do is acrobatics off the top of the major vine bundle in there.

I got some funny shots of him today sitting at the very top, pressed between the grid cover and the vine like he was trying to make grille marks on his back.

When I lit up the umbrella and started taking pics all his lazy butt did was turn his head away and go back to sleep lol.

he ate yesterday too, so I am in the same boat as far as snake models go.

And if your sister did get some greyscales you should post them- an all-white snake on a darker BG looks absolutely incredible in greys if you ask me. . .
 
ill ask her when she awakens if she ever developed that bunch or not..

What I'd really like to do is head over to walmart this weekend and pick up some plastic plants and stuff and just completely decorate his viv so that its more than two sticks from outside, a water bowl and three compleetely dif hides.... one upside down clay pot with a broken entrance, the deli cup he came in(his humid hide) and a half log.. If I do get aroudn to that, I'll stick the pics in off-topic or something. I also need to get around to completely redoing my tree frog enclosure, maybe if I save up for a week or two I'll get em a nice 30 gallon and redo that but with fake plants and a better substrate..... that 20 tall could go to good use for something else in the meantime..

Thanks
 
If it is a point and shoot camera, not a dslr, if you put it in manual mode, and keep pressing the macro/flower button, you might get an even closer macro focus. I get like a magnified square in the middle of my view screen.
 
Macro shots

Great shots and all I think all you need is a tripod for better focus, (hand shake is magnified when shooting macro) and push the button with the lightning bolt on it when your flash is open till you see a yellow eye on the screen (might be red depending on camera) which will reduce the eye wash and you should be able to lower the flash intensity (I have mine set at -6) in your options or just cover the flash with a piece of light gauze or a handkerchief to lower it. Hope that helps. got a few more if interested...
 
Yay!

Thanks for calling your macro feature that "flower button" I looked at my camera and it has it too! Closer pics of Phinius to come in a few days. I just fed him an hour ago :cry:
 
JenC said:
O~M~G!!! That is ONE FREAKIN AWSOME SNOW!!!!!!!!
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haha, thankyou... and thankyou to everyone else.. macro is my new best friend now... I'm still hooping to take a trip to walmart or something and pick up some leaves though..
 
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