I got a camera - guess the snake

[Scales Zoo]

I got a digital camera!!!! My mother saw my growing frustration with not having one, and all the babies and eggs I’m missing taking pictures of – so she offered to loan me her visa to buy each of us one. I will pay her back for mine as soon as I can – but we both have kick *** cameras right now – and If I can’t pay her back I’ll give her an Indigo snake as payment.

I’ve been doing a lot of reading about cameras, and then a newspaper person came to the zoo with a fugi finepix 602. I liked it, but when I started reading and found out that the finepix s500 had a 10x optical zoom – I started to do more research on that camera.

It had more good reviews than I have seen a camera get in a while. Phoning the stores that I did, I found out it is a very popular camera right now – and for good reason I think.

I’ve snapped a few pictures last night, and a few more this morning. Just on auto mode, a few zoom shots, and then I found out I could do cool macro shots. I've taken 20 pictures all in auto mode - and 16 turned out great. So what I am basically saying, is any idiot can take great pictures with this camera out of the box.

The large pictures, when resized – look really good, but you don’t get to see the detail like you could if you had left them larger (but then they don't fit on the screen) When looking at some of my pictures, I thought “this looks like a “guess the snake” thing. So, I took the snake pictures I took, and cropped them severely. In the original pictures, the whole snake is in it - i can post them later.

I even found a piece of shed skin under the scales of one of the snakes in the picture – that I had not seen with the naked eye.

This will now be the way I inspect new snakes for mites – I’m not joking!

http://www.scaleszoo.com/pics/guess/diamond.jpg

http://www.scaleszoo.com/pics/guess/boa.jpg

http://www.scaleszoo.com/pics/guess/hog.jpg

http://www.scaleszoo.com/pics/guess/beauty.jpg

http://www.scaleszoo.com/pics/guess/tiger.jpg

Just wait till I learn how to work it out of auto!

Ryan

[jjnnbns]

diamond
bci
corn
taiwan
king

[LINEBACKER 2]

At the end of the month I'm hoping (knock on wood) that I'll be able to afford the camera that I want. However, after seeing those pictures I just might seek that one out and try it before I consider my original camera.

Steve

[VooDooMafia]

I am very fond of teh Canon Digital SLR series cameras, the addition to add lens and whatnot make them great cameras.

Great looking shots hope to see alot of VERY over due pics coming from you soon lol.

[Scales Zoo]

The pictures shrank beleive it or not, and the effect is not the same as on my computer. Oh - well, I am still pretty happy with the way they look here.

Brent got 3, but there is no conrsnake or kingsnake in the group.

Ryan

[Tim_Cranwill]

Diamond
BCI
Bull
Beauty
Spilotes

:D

[Scales Zoo]

Tim got the Spilotes, but he was wrong about the bull.

I'll post full pictures of the snakes tommorrow - or whenever someone correctly guesses that 1. I'm lucky Vanan and Katt are camping right now.

Ryan

[Stockwell]

Thats the hypo hog I love!!!

[Minnow]

but you forgot sonny boy, I'm not camping!!!
Diamond
Boa
(my fav) Hognose
Taiwan Beauty
Tiger (which on another pic I thought was the diamond)

[Jungle Jen]

Great pics Ryan, you will have to send me some of the Panther Chams you got off me!

[Scales Zoo]

Actually, Roy, that is the darker of the 2 hognose - I have some pictures of both of them (full body shots) that I will post in the general colubrid forum in the next couple of days.

Good guess's Mom, I think you cheated :)

Ryan

[Simon]

Diamond
Boa (is this the Salmon Boa that you got from me?)
Western Hog
Beauty
Tiger Rat~

Congrats on the new camera~
really nice close ups~

[vanderkm]

Incredible pics - especially the beauty - congrats on the new camera!!

mary v.

[Scales Zoo]

Well, here are some of the pictures in their “whole” size. I had to really shrink them down so they would fit in the browser – maybe some day they will create 40’’ monitors.

Simon, that was not the salmon boa we got from you, it was actually one of the boas from our March litter – the one Sheila kept. I can’t wait to take pictures of the one Sheila kept beside the one I kept (that one born real pink)

http://www.scaleszoo.com/pics/guess/boa2.jpg



Here is a picture of both red hoggies together. I suspect the one is going into shed, as it doesn’t normally look that much darker than the other one. The colors are represented quite well I think. I had taken some pictures of them on a white background, and the contrast makes their colors look unbelievable.

http://www.scaleszoo.com/pics/guess/hog2.jpg


I can’t wait to take more pictures of our diamonds. This is the 2003 Patterson female we have, just shed, and is changing with every shed. Our older male is quite different, I will be taking pictures of him shortly (watch the python forum)

http://www.scaleszoo.com/pics/guess/diamond2.jpg


This is the larger picture of our large tiger ratsnake female.

http://www.scaleszoo.com/pics/guess/tiger2.jpg

I will surely be taking more pictures in the next while, and I will likely post them in the boa / python / general colubrid forums. I just realized I didn’t take any indigo pictures, and I can’t wait to try macro out on them.

Ryan

[thunder]

that is a gorgeous diamond.

[Invictus]

Nice. Very nice. I want that camera now. What was the price tag on one of those?