The Petco Jem- TAIL....

[nicolenadia]

Her tail underside is nutz.....i have never seen the color go on the underside. Shes is 3 months.

 

[ByRandom]

This is my stripe/jungle Bell at about 3-4 months old.

I had never seen it either!

 

[Leopard_Lover]

Careful when you grab the tail like that! Don't want that beauty dropping that lovely tail

 

[ByRandom]

I was careful. I've never had a leopard gecko drop it's tail in 7 years. Of course, not to say they don't...

 

[nicolenadia]

wow that jungle has quite a carrot tail!!!

 

[GeckoStud]

WOW, that is a gem! And those tails are kick arse!

 

[LeosForLess]

WOW does it really look like that or is it the camera?

 

[Lottiz]

WOW does it really look like that or is it the camera?

Using the flash can make colors burn. It's much better to use daylight to show the true colors...

/L

 

[nicolenadia]

She really is that bright under normal light. She had just shed a few hours before, but yeah the flash intensifies the color especially on light blue sink.

 

[LeosForLess]

She really is that bright under normal light. She had just shed a few hours before, but yeah the flash intensifies the color especially on light blue sink.

So the gecko looks like that? The sink looked white sort of, lol

 

[nicolenadia]

Do you think Im up to some sort of "trickery"?.....the sink is a very pale blue....water reflects light...flashes bounce off of non pourus shiney surfaces...i'll photographer her in front of the window tomorrow with "natural" sunlight....then you can poke fun at me all you want when you see she looks the same.

 

[StinaKSU]

she's cute I have a girl with color on her underside like that...here's a photo I took tonight...

 

[LeosForLess]

Do you think Im up to some sort of "trickery"?.....the sink is a very pale blue....water reflects light...flashes bounce off of non pourus shiney surfaces...i'll photographer her in front of the window tomorrow with "natural" sunlight....then you can poke fun at me all you want when you see she looks the same.

lol no, its just that i thought the sink was blue and there was somthing with your camera

 

[SteveB]

Nicole... the issue is that your sink appears white on my monitor, just like on Paul's and on Josh's monitors...

If that sink is light blue, and was color corrected to appear white by your camera, your camera achieved that by warming the entire image, which would have exaggerated the coloration of your gecko.

 

[nicolenadia]

I really don't think I would get a hard time from any of you if I had bought her from somene on this forum, but since she was found at Petco..."oh no, it can't be real"....YES, she really is that bright..
No I have manual white balance....I just took a quick snap on auto with the on the camera flash. I didn't have the time to get my real camera and flash , and bounce the light or set up my strobes...I only took her pic because I was quickly getting a pic of these injured geckos that i posted in another post. The camera I use every day for my job is a Canon 20d. I have a small little elf I use for stuff like this. I'll remember now not to post pictures anymore, since I keep getting a hard time....
I went to college for 4 years for photojournalism... this is only a forum, so I didn't expect to get a bunch of wannabe photo editors getting on my case....jeeze
Also, everyones monitors are calibrated differently. I have a new MAC cinema display, and if you don't, its not going to look the same.

 

[Scott&Nikki]

I really don't think I would get a hard time from any of you if I had bought her from somene on this forum, but since she was found at Petco..."oh no, it can't be real"....YES, she really is that bright..
No I have manual white balance....I just took a quick snap on auto with the on the camera flash. I didn't have the time to get my real camera and flash , and bounce the light or set up my strobes...I only took her pic because I was quickly getting a pic of these injured geckos that i posted in another post. The camera I use every day for my job is a Canon 20d. I have a small little elf I use for stuff like this. I'll remember now not to post pictures anymore, since I keep getting a hard time....
I went to college for 4 years for photojournalism... this is only a forum, so I didn't expect to get a bunch of wannabe photo editors getting on my case....jeeze

Nicole, calm down. No one is giving you a hard time. It is just that some people on here have litereally seen millions of leos and never seen one with color like that. If you haven't noticed, everyone on here gets questioned about something they have posted. No one is "picking on you". I don't know if you misunderstood what was said, but absolutely nothing was offensive. It has nothing to do with your picture taking capabilities. Try not to take everything so personally.

Also, everyones monitors are calibrated differently. I have a new MAC cinema display, and if you don't, its not going to look the same.

Thats exactly what they are trying to say. From OUR point of view, your gecko looks like it fell out of the sun. The colors are so bright neon it almsot hurts to look at. Someone mentioned this possiblitity already, too.

 

[SteveB]

Nicole, you're quick to name drop expensive equipment and a degree in photojournalism and then you want to fall back on having a monitor that may not be calibrated the way everyone elses is?

I calibrate both my monitor and my printer frequently. The colors on my screen are not "different" they are accurate. If yours is properly calibrated there should be minimal variance between what the two of us see on the screen. If that is the case then you should be willing to acknowledge that the color balance is off in the picture you took, unless the sink is white (like it appears) and not a shade of blue like you claim it to be.


I posted on this thread in an effort to provide a civil response to the reasoning behind people calling into doubt your picture. You can't provide a respectful response in return and I am saddened by that.

 

[nicolenadia]

What it comes down to is, 2 of you made it seem like I had doctored the photo and it hurt my feelings....I didn't pull out all the stops on that photo, it was a quick 2 sec photo and I get a hard time about it like I made it up. Im assuming you have a PC....Different monitors have different calibration settings...do you work in RGB or CMYK....seriously, your post screamed, "My poo smells better than yours". Undertsand how that made me feel and the fact that I defend myself, now you make me feel something is wrong with defending myself, like Im a 12 year old for doing so. Do you want the PSD file so you can check out the histograms? YES, peoples monitors look different...different brands produce different results. I don't know why you think your monitor is superior, and you act like mine is a peice of junk. I already said like 3 times, I used a straight flash...i didn't bounce it, I didn't diffuse it, and I didn't softbox strobe it....It is a straight on and I never once said it was perfect....

I didn't just fabricate the gecko. If you look at the top photo, the geckos colors are still bright yet my hand looks as normal as it always does. if I had jacked up the satuation or bumped up contrast, my hand would have gone blood red.....All i did was crop low res for screen viewing.

You don't have to be a scientist to know why the sink looks so light....THE WATER...light refraction....light bouncing off of shiney ceramic....I didn't bounce the on camera flash off of the celing.Its not an SLR, its just a point and shoot. I was giving her a soak to get the skin off her toes.....i didn't set up all my stuff.

 

[LeosForLess]

What it comes down to is, 2 of you made it seem like I had doctored the photo and it hurt my feelings....I didn't pull out all the stops on that photo, it was a quick 2 sec photo and I get a hard time about it like I made it up. Im assuming you have a PC....Different monitors have different calibration settings...do you work in RGB or CMYK....seriously, your post screamed, "My poo smells better than yours". Undertsand how that made me feel and the fact that I defend myself, now you make me feel something is wrong with defending myself, like Im a 12 year old for doing so. Do you want the PSD file so you can check out the histograms? YES, peoples monitors look different...different brands produce different results. I don't know why you think your monitor is superior, and you act like mine is a peice of junk. I already said like 3 times, I used a straight flash...i didn't bounce it, I didn't diffuse it, and I didn't softbox strobe it....It is a straight on and I never once said it was perfect....

I didn't just fabricate the gecko. If you look at the top photo, the geckos colors are still bright yet my hand looks as normal as it always does. if I had jacked up the satuation or bumped up contrast, my hand would have gone blood red.....All i did was crop low res for screen viewing.

You don't have to be a scientist to know why the sink looks so light....THE WATER...light refraction....light bouncing off of shiney ceramic....I didn't bounce the on camera flash off of the celing.Its not an SLR, its just a point and shoot. I was giving her a soak to get the skin off her toes.....i didn't set up all my stuff.

I never said that you doctored it...

 

[nicolenadia]

no but it sure was implied with the "lol".....like I have something up my sleeve....