First try at Photoshoot

It's my first try at a photoshoot.

I took more shots (way more) but not everyone was cooperative, so they are not all good.

I used a chair + white tablecloth + white paper. (Quite inexpensive). And it worked well with the smaller ones. The older ones didn't fit as nicely and were less cooperative, they were trying to run more than anything else. The G. Stripe was the bigger one for who the picture didn't went too bad, she is 07 around 1200g.

I will try to take more pictures, may be tomorrow, with WAY more lights. I didn't have enough lights (don't know where to find those fixtures) and ended up doing white balance in GIMP.

So here it is :)
give me your opinion please !

Enchi Female from Regius.Co
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...9-10-13024.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...9-10-13027.jpg

Lesser female from O.C.D.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...9-10-13040.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...9-10-13054.jpg

Albino Female from Two-Monster
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...9-10-13063.jpg

Fire Female from O.C.D.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...9-10-13096.jpg

one of my 2 66% Possible Het Ghost
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...9-10-13115.jpg

Mojave Het Orange Ghost from Two-Monster
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...9-10-13138.jpg

Woma Male
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...9-10-13159.jpg

Genetic Stripe Female
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...9-10-13179.jpg


I hope the others will be cooperative next time. I might try using a black background or another color to see what happens.

I dig em for sure!

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

I dig em for sure!

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ditto and the pictures turned out really well

Great photos... and gorgeous snakes! Totally digging the lesser & g-stripe in particular. :)

Only thing I'd suggest is to crop the photos, so you get more snake and less white background. Other than that, great job! I'm still working on my own photo skills... it's tough to capture the snakes just right, isn't it?

Great shots! The woma is really nice lookin, and I love the position the bino is in! ..and that lesser..wow! What kind of lighting are you using?

beautiful snakes, and great pictures too :)

The pictures turned out awesome! Very nice looking snakes as well!

Great photography skills! Are you sure its your first try? lol! Lovin that enchi of yours! :gj:

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Originally Posted by HypoPita

Great shots! The woma is really nice lookin, and I love the position the bino is in! ..and that lesser..wow! What kind of lighting are you using?

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No enought light :) You never have too much lol !

I need to find more. I only used what I had around. Mostly halogen. But I really didn't had enough.

I reprocessed the pictures in GIMP to rebalance my white. The first few pictures I took with the camera wasn't too bad, but then I kept using that white setting, but I should have reset it, may be it would have work better. The problem was that I didn't had enough light, so it made some part of the light tent darker (more gray) than others.

The albino was the hardest to rebalance. The auto function didn't work well, so I had to balance it manually, and when doing this I was losing some contrast, but I think I managed to get it the best I could.

Here is the picture of that fire before I rebalanced the white in GIMP (if you don't know, it's a sort of open-source, free, version of Photoshop)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...13096_orig.jpg

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Originally Posted by jopay

Great photography skills! Are you sure its your first try?

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First Try with a light tent :)
I also used my GF DSLR (Sony alpha 350). I couldn't have got these with my camera I think.

that g-stripe is sexAY!

Actually getting the light right is the hardest part IMHO.

I see you adjusted your lighting/WB... it looks like you set your white point on your primary layer? This can overdo the white, I've done that myself. For better results, you may try creating a layer & setting your white-point on it. Then adjust your opacity to less than 100% & see how you like the results.

Of course getting the lighting right isn't easy, but once you figure that out you're golden. If you got all the light you can get in a situation, go for a higher ISO setting. The slower shutter speed should make better use of your available light.

I'm figuring out stuff as I go too, so hope this helps. They are very good pics!

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Originally Posted by NorthernRegius

Actually getting the light right is the hardest part IMHO.

I see you adjusted your lighting/WB... it looks like you set your white point on your primary layer? This can overdo the white, I've done that myself. For better results, you may try creating a layer & setting your white-point on it. Then adjust your opacity to less than 100% & see how you like the results.

Of course getting the lighting right isn't easy, but once you figure that out you're golden. If you got all the light you can get in a situation, go for a higher ISO setting. The slower shutter speed should make better use of your available light.

I'm figuring out stuff as I go too, so hope this helps. They are very good pics!

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Thank you very much !

You are saying that I should just put a new layer of "white" in front and then play with the opacity ? I shouldn't have play with the "black and white" stuff ?

great pics of those great snakes... im hoping for a enchi female in the near future.

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

I dig em for sure!

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Definately X 3 :gj:

Watever: Yea, I know what GIMP is, I run Ubuntu Jaunty, standard issue. Love the program :D :P

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Originally Posted by Watever

Thank you very much !

You are saying that I should just put a new layer of "white" in front and then play with the opacity ? I shouldn't have play with the "black and white" stuff ?

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Let me explain:
If you're adjusting the histogram manually or using the white dropper in the "adjust lighting" - yes do it as a layer. Go- copy from background- new layer. That way you can adjust the new layer & you still have the original pic as your background layer until you merge the two.

Sometimes (most times) you can overblow the white & lose too much from the pic. So do it as a layer then bump the opacity above 80 but less than 100%... you'll know when you hit the right %.

Tungsten lights are a PITA - always too warm, but I have them too. You can bounce the light or use a diffuser, also be sure set your WB to "tungsten" when using them.

Eventually replace those lights with "true lights" (low cost way) & a light box or tent which will work great... or get a nice speedlight or (ultimate) alien bees. You've a good eye for this, keep at it!

Nice shots! Looks pretty professional to me.

Albino girl is HOTTT

... :mad: :oops: You take way better pictures then me and I made a whole light tent and all that.... didnt work to well.

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Originally Posted by NorthernRegius

Let me explain:
If you're adjusting the histogram manually or using the white dropper in the "adjust lighting" - yes do it as a layer. Go- copy from background- new layer. That way you can adjust the new layer & you still have the original pic as your background layer until you merge the two.

Sometimes (most times) you can overblow the white & lose too much from the pic. So do it as a layer then bump the opacity above 80 but less than 100%... you'll know when you hit the right %.

Tungsten lights are a PITA - always too warm, but I have them too. You can bounce the light or use a diffuser, also be sure set your WB to "tungsten" when using them.

Eventually replace those lights with "true lights" (low cost way) & a light box or tent which will work great... or get a nice speedlight or (ultimate) alien bees. You've a good eye for this, keep at it!

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Thank you very much ! I will try next !

I just bought 2 reflector lamp (the last left). Should help next time I take pictures.

To adjust my White, I just do it manually before I start shooting. My GF camera is a sony alpha 350. So just need to select wich white you want. Or can just press the "set" button if you have a white background.