Well ... no response from Luis ...
So ...
Okay ... I saw Luis' animals the first day he posted the thread when the female gave birth to the pos. super hypos and pos. super sunglows. As soon as I saw the "sun burnt" animals I was highly suspicious. In fact ... kind of made me and some other people think of the infamous "Brasher Boa". However, I decided not to really say anything as of yet because none of the animals were being sold.
Now ... it has been brought to my attention that Luis is selling the hypos from this litter while using these images to suggest that their genetics are capable of producing red offspring that can rival even the best of lines (Lipstick, Lovell, Matt Crabbe ... etc. etc.). I think it is false advertisement, and here is why.
Luis posted these pics the day after the female dropped, which means these babies had not shed yet.
This first image, of the entire litter, is less than 1 inch by 1 inch in width and length. However, the resolution on it is massive. Typically, the only reason for anyone doing this with an image is to avoid magnification. Indeed, it does make magnification quite difficult, but not impossible. Mostly, you only see this happen with artistic images people do not want stolen or edited or ... at times, when someone may be being deceptive.
The animal I cropped this picture to represent was the one that I have confirmed is the supposed sun burnt looking Sunglow. As you can see, I have pointed out numerous points of familiarity to provide evidence that these boas are, in fact, one in the same. How this animal acquired such coloration ina 24 hour period is beyond me.
Next, I have cropped the picture once again to represent yet another animal that I have confirmed to be the second sun burnt looking sunglow. Again, I have provided points of familiarity to show evidence that these boas are, in fact, one in the same.
Once again, I did this with the albino. This one was a bit more difficult due to the fairly bland pattern, but the tail pattern is identical and evidence enough.
Now, one could assume that it is possible these animals are in fact this color without tampering based on the evidence I provided alone since we all know boas sometimes change colors in odd ways. Okay, I will accept that doubt can be caused in this manner. Because of that, I went ahead and provided further evidence that Luis likely edited these photos in photoshop or some other digital art program, likely with the aid of a digital tablet.
I took four pictures of four different animals: Luis' sun burnt sunglow, a Lipstick sunglow from Burke, a Lipstick sunglow produced by VPI and a Sharp Albino on Kingsnake.com.
I selected a portion of each animals' body using the lasso tool with the aid of a digital tablet in photoshop. I then went to the "Edit" menu and went to "Adjustments" and then picked "Color Balance". From there I messed with the Red, Green and Blue balance (referred to as RGB from here on out), until I could get the look back to how the sun burnt animal looked at birth. Once that was done, I repeated the lasso process with the other three animals and I used the same RGB numbers on each. What I got on the other animals was interesting. The color that appeared on the other three animals shows what would typically be the adult coloration of a sunglow or an albino. However, the sunglow from Luis appeared to just gain normal neonate coloration.
Luis' Sun Burnt Sunglow
Burke's Lipstick Sunglow
VPI's Lipstick Sunglow
The Sharp Albino
What does that mean?
Well, simple. It means that in order for the RGB altering to be less intense on the sunburnt boa than it was on the others, the RGB had to have been messed with initially.
So, that leaves me with two questions for Luis. Care to explain? Got any video of this little guys with this intense coloration?
I would actually like you to prove me wrong, by the way. Sunglows with that coloration would be awesome.
Luis
