Just felt like ranting a little bit... I've been seeing a lot of edited images as far as brightness and contrast, sometimes even color balances, of ball pythons, whether they are for sale or just to show off an animal. The way I see it, is that it is fine to edit an image to try to make it represent the snake's true look more accurately... but I get rather annoyed when images are edited in a way to make it look "better" than it really is. One of the easiest ways to decide if an image has been "overedited" is by looking at the background. If the snake is on aspen, and you can hardly even see the aspen anymore because the photo has been so washed out with brightness, then obviously the snake is being misrepresented. Also, if the background looks discolored. I saw a photo of some Burgandy ball pythons the other day, yet the whole background had a pinkish wash to it, where it would not normally be that color. One more thing is hands... a lot of times people will shoot a photo of their snake being held in someone's hand... if the color or brightness is off on the skin color of the hand, you know that the snake does not actually look the way it does in the photo.

Maybe it's just me being overly particular about things, but it's just one of those things that really gets my goat.