Bell Hybinos, RAPTORS, Blazing Blizzards and Red Stripes - Steve's Hamm shipment

[rhac]

Bell Hybinos, RAPTORS, Blazing Blizzards and Red Stripes - Steve Sykes' Hamm shipment

Hi,

as you all know last saturday it was Terraristika time again. Steve send again a big shipment to Germany. This time it was my job to deliver the geckos to the customers. When the geckos were at my house I had the chance to take some pics of some of those amazing animals in the shipment.

Bell Hybinos:

Snake-eye RAPTOR:

Blazing Blizzard:

Red Stripes:

I got two beautiful Mack Snow females. One from Steve and one from Shelly (lizardlair.net). Both already shed. I'll post pics of them soon.


Regards, Johannes Knierer

 

[BalloonzForU]

WOW look at the color in # 4's eyes, almost looks like a bell eye with Enigma too. And that Blazing Blizzard's smile is priceless!!!

 

[eyelids]

Yeah that's some nice color!

 

[nwheat]

Beautiful geckos and wonderful pictures!

 

[DanTheFireman]

I guess we know what Johannes does for a living. Incredible photos. Thank you for posting them.

 

[gixxer3420]

Nice looking leos!

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

Fantastic photos of some great geckos! I LOVE that pic of the smiling Blazing... too cute for words!

 

[gothra]

Ditto, that smiling Blazing pic is awesome!! Thanks for posting the pics Johannes, really great pics!

 

[Kotsay1414]

Beautiful Geckos!

 

[Jeanne]

Wow! Those really are amazing pictures! I wish I had half of your talent!

 

[tradergreg]

Amazing photos

Those are someincredible photos! I really like the BEll Hybino eyes and the Blazing Blizzard smiling. I wonder what he was smiling at?

Johannes, please share some of your lighting and photography secrets! Those photos are incredible! I have not seen any better than these. Truly awesome.

 

[papaK]

wow those pictures are awesome! i really need to work on camera skills... and work on getting a DSLR... sometime.

 

[GekkoGalaksen]

So nice pics, you can publish a book with Leopardgecko photos!
I would buy it

 

[PrototypeGeckos]

WOW on the geckos, those are very very nice, and WOW on those pictures, man those are great pictures!!!

 

[LadyGecko]

I'd like to echo every single word of praise that has been said
Can you please give us some tips on trying to get pics half as good as those??

Sandy

 

[marula]

those pics are AMAZNIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
..i love:
the second pic of the bell hybono when he look at you like for say: "hei, i'm here " :main_laugh:
the smiling pic of the sweeet blizzard :main_yes: :main_yes:
and pics on the sand are simply stunning!
wich kind of paper you use for the white background of your pics? the effect are really nice :main_yes: :main_robin:

 

[GroovyGeckos.com]

Amazing pics!

 

[Powergeckos]

Nice pix. Could you perhaps tell us a little bit about your camera, set up - lighting, etc. I think it would be really informative.

thanks!!

 

[gothra]

I'd like to know how you "train" your geckos to stay still too, LOL. I have a hard time getting my geckos to stop for just 2 secs, so my old camera can focus properly....

 

[rhac]

Hi,

thank you all for all the nice coments!

This is the photo shooting table I use:

Before using the photo shooting table I worked with our living room lamp and that set up looked a bit different :

It worked ok for me as well. But my mother wasn't so happy about the fact that I used the living room as a photo studio
The photos were ok as well:

But to take better pics and to make it easier for me (and my mother) I decided to get me the photo shooting table.

wich kind of paper you use for the white background of your pics? the effect are really nice

so the background is just the glas of the photo shooting table.

The camera I use is the Olympus e-300 with a close up lense. The close up lense is doing a good job. Of course I would prefer a macro lense but it would cost nearly as much as the camera itself. So first I need to get me a good flash before investing in a macro lense. I hope that Santa read my wish list well

I'd like to know how you "train" your geckos to stay still too, LOL.

Well I've worked with Leopardgeckos since 1998. And I've always loved to take pictures of them. So I know all the typical leopardgecko-movements and -reactions. And my own geckos are well trained from all the photo shootings of course
Well with Steve Sykes' geckos I was lucky that the nicest ones were tame enough to be photographed.

Last tip: The best training is taking pics of the craziest juvies/babies. If you know how to get good pics of them you won't have a problem with most of the adults


Regards, Johannes