Quote Originally Posted by ajsnoopy View Post
I'd say you did a fairly nice job capturing each of your snakes If you have the option on your camera, do a custom white balance (on my camera, it's under the 'Function' menu). You'll usually want to photograph a gray card of some sort, and that usually helps balance out the colors (making the red, green, and blue on a histogram centered). A few look a little overexposed, so choose a quicker shutter speed if you can.

All in all, you captured them wonderfully!!! That bee is just amazing!
Thanks! One day I will carefully read the owner's manual of my Canon 40D and try again, but I'm just using the auto settings for now. I was hoping that the proper setup would obviate the need to learn the custom settings because last time I tried to customize, the pictures were much worse.