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A nice little redhead

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Pulled out Redboy for cleaning day and his head was completely red. Harlequins tend to have nice pink/red on the head but this was insane, never seen it flushed with so much color before. Of course, camera never does justice
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He is usually very pale, this was a cool look for him. I like the highlights on each side of the arrow on his head, almost like it’s glowing.
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Neat! too bad the pics don't show it as nicely... oh well.
-April
 
He definitely has nice color, the pale spots do make the head stripe stand out don't they. It doesn't seem fair sometimes how difficult capturing their looks is.
 
That boy's purty. You can tell he's having a red head. It's sorta obvious, and the pale spots make it stand out even more.

Nice stuff right there. :thumbsup:
 
Mooing Tricycle said:
You should bring that boy outside so we can see some shots with natural light :D
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I know, I wish I could! I'm in an apartment right now and don't really want the neighbors to see the critters so that makes it difficult. I'm going to have to drag a bunch of them out in a rubbermaid on a quite Sunday morning or something. :)

Thanks for the nice comments! The more I look at these pics the more I dislike them, I know I can do better.
 
Tried to get some better shots but alas, looks like going outside is the only way I’ll be able to capture his colors. He’s got a much deeper pink/reddish flush that the flash will allow the camera to pick up. At least these pics came out a little better than the other ones I posted.
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Thanks for looking.
 
Most cams with flash built in will soften the flash if you put in macro mode.

But I don't have a problem seeing his color at all. That's a really nice boy right there.
 
Finally got some outdoor pics! These were taken today at 6pm in the shade, camera on 'natural light' setting. (and text added in photoshop of course)
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Here he is with his sister Candy, but she was in blue and wasn't very photogenic. She also didn't want to hold still.
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Some closeups of Redboy's face.
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Hope you liked the pics!
-April
 
Thank you!
Randall, I like his speckles too, especially how they group around the saddles.

The father of the litter was here on loan so we took turns picking out which babies we wanted and if you can believe it Redboy was my #3 pick (so 5th pick out of the litter). I'm really happy with how he turned out.

TheFragginDragon said:
BTW what kind of camera are you using April?
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The first 2 sets of pictures were taken with my Olympus FE340 8meg camera (guy got me it for last Xmas). I am still trying to get it figured out, it tends to blur and I don't like the flash. The last set of outdoor pics I too with my guy's Fuji Finepix, I don't remember which model I had got him, similar to the S1500fd if not that same one.

Eventually we'd like to get either a nice Nikon or a Cannon powershot DSLR. (maybe one day...) :)
 
Very nice, the outside pics really show the pinks. I have the same problem, i have to be really careful because the neighbors have no idea I have so many "critters" in my house.lol Very nice looking critter.
 
Looking good April. I know the male is the star of the show, but that females pretty hot looking too, in blue or not. She looks mighty clean.

Great looking critters, the both of them.
 
Thanks guys! I'm glad I found this little secluded area at my apartment where I can sneak them down for outside photos.

crotalusadamanteus said:
that females pretty hot looking too, in blue or not. She looks mighty clean.
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Good eyes, yeah she is super clean and looks like bubblegum when in 'new clothes', she is the pinkest hypo I have, Redboy has much more of an orange/red coloration. I'll make sure to get some nice outdoor shots of her after shed.

I also want to show pics up of the 2 other siblings, Puzzle and Velvet, they are more classic harlequins with abbarent patterns. Sadly they are also in blue at the moment. Silly snakes, don't they know I want to take pics?! :D
 
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