Wow! BEEE-U-TEE-FUL photos! I love BRBs (I have 3), and that first GTP is amazing. I think I prefer them without the black spots, myself, but they're all beautiful snakes
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We've got a bunch of the "plain old green ones" too, but to have something that strange pop out of a clutch of otherwise normal ones was awesome! There's definitely something to be said for a solid green snake though... that's why I love this species - there's something for everyone's taste! I think my dream chondro would be a solid black one honestly. I know that's a ways off and probably not going to happen (in my projects anyway...there are some professional breeders who are pretty close though), but I can't wait to see what sort of offspring we get out of these next year. We've actually got a dozen full siblings to this group of green trees in incubation right now too, so come January 7th I'll be posting pictures of them hopefully!
Can you post a photo of what your photography set up looks like? The dark background & well illuminated animal creates quite a striking photo!
I could, but I'd be laughed out of the forum...lol. It's nothing special, really.
Here's the deal. I hate flash and try to avoid it at all costs. I had a clamp light with a 100w GE Reveal bulb attached to a chair in my living room. That piece of wood that the snakes are on was leaning up against an old shipping box for support, and the backdrop is my dark kitchen. Really, that's the extent of it. My living room light was on too, but the kitchen was dark enough and the snakes were highlighted enough to blacken the background out completely.
I've always maintained that you don't need a great camera to take good pictures, but the more control you have over the mechanics of the camera the more control you have over the quality of the photo in the long run. I use a Sony DSC-R1. I'm still learning this camera since I haven't even had it a year now, but I think anything where you can control the white balance, the shutter and aperture settings, and the focal point (multi-point focus vs single point focus) then you have a lot of control. Nowadays it seems like everybody has an SLR camera...I work with a guy who has two and the only things he ever uses them for is to take pictures at his kid's birthday parties, etc... Mine isn't an SLR so it's considered "inferior" by most of the camera buffs, but it still gets the job done.
Great photos!! Is your BRB really that red, or is there any saturation going on with the photo? If so, do you mind if I ask where or who did you get him from?
A BRB is on the top of my must have list, but I have a very specific type/look I want in mine: bright deep red. The lighter oranger ones don't do it for me.
The picture is pretty close to natural...there's no photoshop work in it or anything and I didn't mess with an of the color settings on my camera. I think the biggest thing there is the fact that it's night time. BRBs change their color slightly (the silvers in the ventral half aren't there during the day as much), so the contrast is greater within the snake.
I got this pair as a rescue actually... the people had this 1.1 pair and a 20 year old redtail boa that they had kept. The guy lost his job at some point and they couldn't afford to feed any of the snakes for the last 6 months that they had them. When they realized that they were slowly killing them, I got called and we took the rainbows and donated the redtail to the zoo I work at.
I know they got them from somebody online, but I have no idea who. They were supposed to get ahold of me and let me know a day or two later (because I wanted to know for my own reference), but I never heard from them again. I know that on another forum a guy from Rainbows 'R' Us said that it looks like some of the lines he's worked with and I guess he's a fairly well known guy among the BRB keepers so I'd contact him if you're interested in a high red one.
Great pics! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for looking!
