April 2011 Photo & Captions Comment Thread

[zooplan]

Garter snake scales

Garter Snake back or lateral scales is closer but no head scales no vetral shields.

Most digital cameras have a macro mode, most cheap cameras as well, check your manuals!

Take the photo outside where light is better, choose highest quality thats provided by your camera and cut of the most briliant part of the picture.

[drache]

so do you want just the scales, or is an image with the keeled scales clearly visible good enough?
My macro doesn't do this, and when I go too big, the detail just gets blurry

[RedSidedSPR]

Jeez, not everybody has an expensive camera and macro lenses capable of photographing mites. This isn't going to be easy. For many, impossible.

That's me... sigh...

[RedSidedSPR]

Not everybody had a snake in shed, when "snakes shedding" was the theme. Not everybody has had garter babies, when that has been the theme. Not everybody has the luck of being there with a camera when a snake yawns. Not everybody wants to appear on camera when the contest requires the participants to be in the photo with his or her snake. Not everyone has a lawn for taking the "garters in the grass" photo. Not everybody has more than one garter for the half a dozen contests that have required more than one to appear in the photo. Hell, not everybody even makes any special winter preparations. Not everybody can get their snake to make a defensive posture, or catch the their snakes mating. Not everybody uses substrates that a snake can burrow in. Not everybody has garters with parietal spots. Not everybody celebrates thanksgiving, or halloween or even christmas for that matter.

Maybe not everybody needs to participate in every contest.

Whoa. You gonna be alright, man?

[ConcinusMan]

Not everybody needs to be alright, all the time.

[drache]

Not everybody needs to be alright, all the time.

ain't that the truth

[RedSidedSPR]

ain't that the truth

It is.

[ConcinusMan]

This is impossible. I'd like to think I have a pretty good quality camera but nothing beats a pro model with a high quality macro lens attached. I can't get this to work at all. The macro lens alone, needed for this, costs more than my camera.

[Stefan-A]

And I found 8 possible entries by quickly browsing through my photos. Wouldn't even need to take any new ones for this contest. I would however have needed to leave the country for that "garter babies"-themed contest.

[RedSidedSPR]

This is impossible. I'd like to think I have a pretty good quality camera but nothing beats a pro model with a high quality macro lens attached. I can't get this to work at all. The macro lens alone, needed for this, costs more than my camera.

I'm in the same boat. Cropping seems to be our only hope. Just get the best you can, and crop/zoom, and it should be able to compete. That's allowed, right?