Pastel/Mojave Clutch ALMOST out!

[Mitch21]

After 3 years of keeping ball pythons, here's my first clutch ever...

2 normals
1 mojave
1 pastave

Pics were taken from my iphone in a well lit area but look pretty dark. I'm going to try my dad's Nikon D5000 out and hopefully get some better pics.

The mojave looks real nice. It's got a nice black back with flames coming real high on both sides--Very nice.
And the Pastave looks stellar! It hasn't been out of the egg yet, but from what you can see... DAMN! I'm excited to see it out!

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Thanks for looking!!

[Jyson]

NICE!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait to see the pastave out of the egg, it looks hot! Congrats Mitch!

[DellaF]

I'm excited for you. I love the Mojave that is out and about

[Mitch21]

Thanks! All have come out of the eggs... The mojave is awesome and the pastave is super awesome!

Anyone have any camera tips?? I was trying to use my dad's Nikon D5000 camera and still can't quite get accurate colors. I have 3 bright lights blasting down and yet the pictures still have strange dark white levels. I'm just using it on auto mode since I don't know how to adjust the white levels... Any advise would be much appreciated!!

[mjmendoza]

WOW! congrats on the great 1st clutch.

For the DSLR. If you put it on auto with no flash you should get some good pictures.

[Sugarbone]

Thanks! All have come out of the eggs... The mojave is awesome and the pastave is super awesome!

Anyone have any camera tips?? I was trying to use my dad's Nikon D5000 camera and still can't quite get accurate colors. I have 3 bright lights blasting down and yet the pictures still have strange dark white levels. I'm just using it on auto mode since I don't know how to adjust the white levels... Any advise would be much appreciated!!

Auto mode should be fine, if you look in the camera manual it will explain how to access "white balance" settings - basically compensating for lighting. It tries to find what is meant to be truly white and balances colours around that. In photo editting software you can manually change the white balance by selecting what is meant to be white (say, a sheet of paper etc). But your camera should do it fine!

A common misconception is that expensive cameras are rad in all lighting situations - indoors without a great light setup you can easily get grainy or blurry or dark photos, depending on how your camera balances the light. Your eyes are 20,000 times more sensitive to light that most camera sensors and that's why we're surprised sometimes our photos are so dark!

Sorry for the photography preachin, I'm super keen to see that pastave hatch out grats!

[Driver]

They look great. I hope to be able to produce the same thing in two years.

[SlitherinSisters]

Very nice! Can't wait to see them out!

[Mitch21]

All snakies are out... Just waiting for them to shed to spend any real time snapping pics.

One of the normals has a real nice symmetrical/reduced back half of the body and the pastave is just too much fun to look at! The mojo too has a nice black back around the yellows and real high flames! Time to start setting up a light tent and figuring out these white levels!

Thanks for the camera help above!