Red Rattle (and curious too!)

He was quite a nosy one, I wonder why, with my little tripod carefully held upon the plexi cage that was his home. I made a lot of nice shots of this one, yet the heating bulb was tricky.
So I sharped the head somewhat and did trickery with the eyes (all red in this shot). Hope you like it!

comments (4)

Ellen de Koster

King Cobra

if you use flash against glass you can prefent reflection. Its quite easy place the flash under an angle of more than 45 degrees . this prefends reflecting back in the objectief.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/everyday-innovations/mirror2.htm Posted 13 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
  Lion
  
  I didn't know that tip, thanks for sharing it. Posted 13 years ago
2. Ludo Sak
  
  Lion
  
  I did not know it was that easy to do. Gotta buy an external flash for that one. That's one of my plans, so it may take a while. Posted 13 years ago

Ludo Sak

Lion

Hi Ellen, thanks your thinking along! Unfortunately the reflection on this plex is from one of the many small bulbs hanging in the zoo's room, I just could not get around any single one of them for this shot. Though I would not have guessed it being so in the picture;)
I shot this one with a 1.8 prime which does not need a flash at his level of light.
Besides I don't have a decent flash expect the one on my camera which I never use.

Thx for your comment! Posted 13 years ago

The Corn snake

The corn snake, or red rat snake, is a North American species of rat snake that subdues its small prey by constriction. The name "corn snake" is a holdover from the days when southern farmers stored harvested ears of corn in a wood frame or log building called a crib. Rats and mice came to the corn crib to feed on the corn, and corn snakes came to feed on the rodents. The Oxford English Dictionary cites this usage as far back as 1676.

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Similar species: Snakes And Lizards

Species identified by Ludo Sak