Snake Eggs are Hatching!!

ShirleyM · 08-14-2005, 12:58 AM

Troy's snake eggs are hatching!!!

They take a long time to hatch, and 10 of the thirteen are going to hatch, it appears. (3 are definitely not going to hatch)

One is all the way out. 8 haven't begun to hatch yet. They were due around the 15th-25th of August (approx 70 days depending upon incubation temp of 80-88 degrees F.)

Here a just a few pics... I'll make a website later of loads of pics... They are so adorable! One looks like both parents, the other is heterozygous for the grandfather. The parents are siblings, so the red one picked up the 25% recessive chance for heterozygous gene for the red albino color. We are so excited because Pitre (grandpa) died several yrs ago at the age of eleven yrs of malignant kidney cancer.

You can see the umbilical cord here.

I caught the tail end of a yawn here.

Little Pitre Junior emerging...

Another view of Pitre Jr. - not yet all the way out yet... maybe tomorrow.

They shed at about 10 days of age, then they eat their first meal... a day-old mouse. They can live safely with their parents, but they are in the incubator until they are completely hatched.

dobejazz · 08-14-2005, 01:01 AM

Congrats !! the pics are so cool !!!! Thanks for sharing

FishDaddy · 08-14-2005, 06:51 AM

Awesome event, Shirley!!! Is Troy passing out cigars????

Those are great photos of the blessed event(s)! Beautiful little critters and an albino, yet!!

I can't help but ask, which camera??

Dick

VWD · 08-14-2005, 09:36 AM

Pretty cool stuff. Thank You for the pictures.

ShirleyM · 08-14-2005, 11:21 AM

Hi Dick!

Thanks! Those were all taken with the Olympus C-5050. Today I'm going to get some with the Fuji S1-Pro.

With your Nikon, do you take jpgs mostly, or tifs? I've been taking tiffs, and when I put the camera in the mode to take tiff after tiff w/o having to wait for it to write to the card, most of the pics have a foggy film over a perfectly awesome pic!

I was at Video convention all week last week, met a lady who shoots photography and uses a Canon, and she said she uses the jpg setting all the time for her weddings (!). Your opinion?

My tiff images at best setting are 10 MBs each at least, jpgs are under a MB at best setting, but my Olympus C-5050 at best setting using jpg is 2.5 MB filesize. It has a tiff option, but I rarely use it.

Thanks!

ShirleyM · 08-14-2005, 12:06 PM

This one is very active, skittish, and a bit feisty:

And this one, who looks just like his mother, is very calm and could care less what's going on around him:

They are climbing around on a small bird stand.

No one else is starting to hatch yet. (same camera took these pics)

Correction on color genes:
Troy explained to me again... see if I get this right...

homozygous: the red albino baby picked up a recessive red albino gene from each of its parents, which happen to be siblings, and they each got the recessive gene from the grandfather (their father) who is homozygous for red albino, meaning he has two "same genes" for red albino. So, the red one is homozygous for the grandpa, not heterozygous.

FishDaddy · 08-14-2005, 12:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShirleyM

Thanks! Those were all taken with the Olympus C-5050. Today I'm going to get some with the Fuji S1-Pro.

With your Nikon, do you take jpgs mostly, or tifs?

Hi, Shirley,
I NEVER shoot Tiffs!! The files are too large and write times waaay too slow. My preference for the D70 is to shoot RAW (Nikon calls it NEF). I still get unlimited 3 frames per second with my D70 shooting RAW. With the Nikon Capture Editor, you can adjust White Balance, Exposure, and most all other parameters as if done in-camera at the time of the shot as the RAW file is just that...raw data. I can then 'save as' JPG or, if wanting a large file for printing, to TIFF. You do need a good RAW converter to make this useful.

My C-5050Z (Love that little camera!) has the same RAW option though I usually shoot JPG at the highest quality with excellent results.

The first pic in your last post is really nice!

Dick

ShirleyM · 08-14-2005, 01:21 PM

Hmmm. I can shoot RAW with either camera... I will have to mess with that. Thanks!

So my highest quality jpgs with the S1 will look as nice printed at 12x18 as the tiff highest quality? Photogs at the convention told me no one would be able to see the difference...

If that's the case, my life will be a LOT easier!!

FishDaddy · 08-14-2005, 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShirleyM

So my highest quality jpgs with the S1 will look as nice printed at 12x18 as the tiff highest quality? Photogs at the convention told me no one would be able to see the difference...

If that's the case, my life will be a LOT easier!!

You've got enough megapixels to make good prints with the JPG files but what you can if that isn't satisfactory is to shoot JPG; do whatever processing you want, then "Save As" both your processed JPG and as Tiff. The Tiff will be upsampled to a much larger file. That way, you don't have to use disk space for Tiffs except those you want to print. You can even delete the Tiff to save space and re-"Save As" the JPG to Tiff anytime you want to print it again.

For example, I just took a 2mp JPG file and "Saved As" Tiff, using Paint Shop Pro9, and the resulting Tiff was 7mp!!!

Dick

tims · 08-14-2005, 05:27 PM

Shirley! congrats! to troy too.....
so what are you goingto do with all the babies? 10 out of 13 is not bad at all!
wonderful pictures!if you were closer you coudl have had all the pinkies you needed.

ShirleyM · 08-14-2005, 08:13 PM

New Pics...
Dick, these were taken with the Fuji S1-Pro, 2nd highest setting, which is jpg... oddly enough, I cannot find that it takes RAW data images, which my little Olympus DOES take! Anyhow, run through photoshop the same way the others were... I needed a tripod for sure with several... no flash on any of these.

These first two rose shots are the same rose, shot with the S1-Pro... nothing done differently, but colors came out differently...

(It rained today... I didn't add the "dewdrop effect"!)

Same rose bush yesterday with the C-5050:

Any comments on the cameras?

tims · 08-14-2005, 08:33 PM

I like the S1 Pro. the colors look more...vivid

ShirleyM · 08-14-2005, 08:50 PM

The colors are much superior, and hardly any correction takes place in Photoshop compared to other cameras... it's just hard to get the S1 Pro to focus and get the lighting correct in the first place... IOW I need to just keep working with it!

Mainly, the Nikon external flash attachment has been a real pain... it's either awesome or awful!!

Thanks!

cath · 08-15-2005, 11:36 PM

Far out, Shirley!!!!!! That is so neat. Thanks for the great pix

Jeremy1973 · 08-16-2005, 09:32 AM

I don't know.. I think the C-5050 makes things look a little more dry.

*sorry..couldn't resist*

Congrats on the snakes! The red albino one is gorgeous! How long are they right now?