My 7 dwarfs <3

[TheFeldhamster]

Hi, I'm new and these are my 7 RC dwarfs:

This is Carrasco

Carrasco von tina_6500 auf Flickr

He was a transvestite when I got him last year together with his sister Castelldefels - Felsi for short. He only ever developed visible testicles when he turned 1yr old. They had a litter of 7 pups. I adopted out 2 of them. The other 5 still live with me.

Felsi lives with her 2 daughters - this is her together with Almendra in their cage

Felsi + Almendra von tina_6500 auf Flickr

And this is her other daughter Aura in the play-pen

Aura von tina_6500 auf Flickr

Two of the sons live together - Aurum

Aurum &amp; Apolo in background von tina_6500 auf Flickr

and Apolo

Who's there? (Apolo) von tina_6500 auf Flickr

The third boy got into fights after a while so I had to separate him out. This is Aero, he's a bit shy:

Aero von tina_6500 auf Flickr

[Erin Loves Dwarf Hamsters]

Beautiful, beautiful hamsters! I also have 7 dwarfs but mine are mostly roborovskis

[Silver]

Beautiful.

Im loving Carrasco, such pretty colouring xxx

[emilyweb]

awhh Gorgeous hams!! I love Carrasco too but there all amazingly gorgeous

[TheFeldhamster]

Thank you!

Oh, and here are 2 baby pics of the 2 boys I adopted out (later of course but I don't have the pics from when they were older handy):
Arturo as a little baby:

wild color satin - day 15 von tina_6500 auf Flickr

Acero as a little baby:

The blue baby - day 19 von tina_6500 auf Flickr

[CoolcatNatNat44]

gorgeous dwarfies!!

[Erin Loves Dwarf Hamsters]

Oh wow, just wow!
Im going in with my usual question What camera and lens did you use? Those shots are perfect!

[louisbs]

The shots she gets of the European Hams are awesome too! I have been looking at her flickr album for months.. they are beautiful.
All the dwarfies are gorgeous

[TheFeldhamster]

Thanks!

Oh, I use different cameras and lenses. For my own hams mostly I use my Canon 500D with the cheap kit lens but I also use an older Fuji 6500fd bridge camera and an older Ricoh Caplio R6 compact camera. Lighting and composition play a much more important part than the camera itself. Eg. in the big IKEA cage I have lighting and that really makes a lot of difference. The rest is just some fiddling with the settings - I usually do some -1/3 exposure compensation and use the flash only as fill light with reduced power.

The shots of the wild hamsters are mostly done with with the Canon and with a nice 70-200mm f/4 L IS USM lens. The body is not as important, I could have used the cheaper 1000series body just as well. I did start with the Fuji back in 2009 and got decent photos but you have to be more patient. An SLR and a good long lens really pay off when photographing wildlife. I dream of a 70-200 f/2.8 but it's so expensive and also quite heavy...

[StarlightSerenity]

Originally Posted by louisbs

The shots she gets of the European Hams are awesome too! I have been looking at her flickr album for months.. they are beautiful.
All the dwarfies are gorgeous

I have as well

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