So I finally got a new camera... (Snake Pic Heavy)

(01-23-2013, 09:46 PM)amberra824 Wrote: I couldn't help but comment on this. I'm a huge snake lover (although my mother resents me for it - she's terrified of them!) and these pictures are gorgeous! I had to pause in what I was doing and sit here staring at the photos for well over ten minutes, entranced. The quality of the photos alone were far better than what I'm used to, probably because the closest to a "camera" that I have is my iPod Touch (Thank goodness I've finally upgraded to the new 5th generation - the camera is far superior and more advanced than the one on the 4th generation. It actually has flash!) So that alone makes me love the pictures. But your snakes...they are simply breathtaking. And you seemed to get them to pose for you. so perfectly! Haha, the angles at which those pictures were taken, and their pose in them, is just beautifully done.

Suffice it to say that I like the photos

Thanks! "Posing" is not the word I would use for it, lol. When I do photos of the snakes, I take ALLOT of pictures, the camera I have now has a few different "continuous shooting" modes, which I use. Also adjusting the settings at times, white balance, macro on or off, ISO, etc... For every picture I save, I delete quite a few. I don't want to say it's luck, but I sort through allot and keep the ones I like. And all this depends on exactly how cooperative the animals want to be on the day I want to photograph...

But thanks again for the compliments Here's another, a closeup of my Dominican red mountain boa, Phoenix. He was far more concerned with exploring than staying anything resembling still. His colours are amazing in the sun, but he wouldn't cooperate that day