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They are stunning. For some reason I, too, can not capture green of my alex in daylight. I see the green, and it turns out washed-out blue in my photograph. I turned it, tilted it, virtually shook it. Now I think there is something wrong with my camera. But it seems you have the same problem.Date: 1/19/2010 4:54:39 PM
Author: LovingDiamonds
Ok - please bear in mind I am NOT a photographer and taking photos of these is like chasing a feather in a storm! Crasru, it''s taken me years to amass my colour changers and I''ve bought them from everywhere. The only piece of advice I can give you is keep looking and if you see one that you think has potential BUY IT, don''t hesitate (or I''ll have got in there first). Be warned though, you often find that when these are being sold the photos are photoshopped just because they are so difficult to accurately depict so I''d suggest you speak to the vendor and ask what he actually sees! Have you seen colour change sapphires? They come in all colour ways and I had great fun about a month ago trying to capture those!
The first one shown below has a true Alexandrite colour change. It''s bottle green during the day (and for some reason I can NEVER capture the daylight green of an Alex or a CC Garnet) and purple in incandescent light. The incandescent picture is pretty accurate.
The second one is (believe it or not) a light champagne colour during the day (it looks lilac in the photo and I can''t capture this one at all) but, again, the incandescent picture is pretty accurate as it goes to a lovely rose pink/lilac.
As with most colour changers/shifters, I always think they look far prettier in incandescent light.
I saw one that goes from purple (a dark purple) to pinkish red, and I thought that was attractive, but if the purple is too dark, and too grey, that would ruin it for me I'm afraid.Date: 1/19/2010 11:28:55 PM
Author: sleepyspinel
From what I have seen (handled and own several of these stones) that the more dramatic the color change... the darker the tone. And while the incadescent coloration is fairly easy to tease out, its a rare day when the northern daylight conditions are available and bright enough to really enjoy the blue green of the stone.
And forget about 'vivid' there seems to a grey mask to all the material I have personally seen. In mixed lighting its like a purple grey. However I will say this, in sunlight, especially direct, this material seems to have an unusually high level of dispersion (not as good as demantoid mind you) but better than other garnets and even spinel (I am not sure how well that is documented).
Jeff,Date: 1/20/2010 9:23:15 AM
Author: Revolution
Crasu,
Not yet but I am hoping to be soon. I am trying to get everything together, get more stones cut and get a website put together. Then there''s the merchant account for accepting credit cards, figuring out how to take good pics of the stones and all the other little details.
Look for the launch around the middle of March. I think if I get on the vendor list I will be able to put the web address in my sig but I have to clear that with Ali.