I'm a little confused as to what Buster is. He's definitly a cinnamon with a yellow and is not sky blue. My camera doesn't photograph purple at all so every picture I take with it shows up like he is sky blue. The feathers on his back are a dark cobalt in color. He has purple cheek patches and this is the best picture I've got of his coloring and is pretty close to real life. Does cinnamon dilute color? I've read in one place that it does and in another that it doesn't. Would that make him a violet or cobalt?

 

Edited June 30, 200618 yr by Celeste

buster is a cutie, any chance you can take some more shots and make them bigger?? Try in sunlight with out a flash that seems to help get close to their natural colour. It did the trick from my purple girl Thistle.

 

Yes Cinnamon will dilute the body colour a bit. and in this picture his wings do look brown. Is buster still a baby? If not a later picture of him would help to tell if he is type 2 or type 1 yellowface. Type 2 get more yelllow washing into the body colour as they grow up to give them a green look. Type 1 only has yellow on the face.

He's a type one yellow face. Yes, that picture if from when he was a baby but he's a little more than a year old now. His color has stayed pretty much the same. I've tried taking pics outside too, his bright purple swing photographs as a blue and he photographs as a sky blue. I tried again with some outdoor pics, his face is more of a pale butter colored yellow and body feathers are more of a periwinkle. He looks a lot like Lovey's Merlin:

 

 

 

Edited July 1, 200618 yr by Celeste

Anyone? Anyone?

just remember to be paitent folks can't always get on every day

 

I don't think he is violet, looking at those new piccies, in fact in the last he doesn't even look cinnamon. So that leaves a normal cobalt yellowface.

 

Of cuase you can tell us if he looks truly brown in real life.

Yeah, he's a cinnamon. (Laughing out loud) I'm just confused.

okay thank, I know what it's like I"ve taken pictures of my violet girl and had them make her look sky blue! so it's hard to get the right colour in pictures sometimes.

 

With the dark cheek spots there is a chance but I can't be 100% sure.

Yeah, I think it's my camera it seems to have troubles with purples. Fortunately I'm going to get some pretty cool cameras from work soon so I'll be able to take some stellar pictures.