Also, the first picture is obviously a hatchling where as the second picture it's hard to tell how large the snake is. I know that I've seen a cinny pewter before in person, and although I still think the black pastels (at the least from the examples I have seen in person/pictures) are better, the cinny pewters I've seen are much more "silvery" as hatchlings and dull out as they get older (almost like axanthics) So it could be that the black pastel pewters will also dull out.