Relax

I like photographing reptiles because for the most part, they will sit perfectly still while you compose your shot. For hours.

For those that wish to know, this is a Ghost phase Royal Python (aka Python regius), a lightly coloured morph of the standard Royal Python.

This is the first photoshoot I've done where I used my D1x exclusively. It exceeded my expectations. My fuji is currently up for sale.

Pretty

Cute little guy isn't he? Did a photoshoot for a petshop and this guy (rose hair tarantula) sat still for me.

Several images combined to bring out his (her? dunno) full colour.

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Bracketing

A little bit of HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography. The basic theory is to take multiple shots of the same subject, each time changing the exposure value by several stops. Then by using software, combine all three images and get a much wider tonal range than possible with one shot.

That's the theory anyway, sometimes it works (as here) other times the results are horrendous, just Google "HDR" for images of the abuse of this concept.