tonyjlopez
Rough_Rock
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- Feb 5, 2013
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I am having fun practicing my photo skills by taking images of my wife's 20th Anniversary wedding set by James Allen with a 2 Carat Princess Center Stone H VS2 AGS 0 Ideal Cut stone.
I want to personally thank Jim (Allen) Schultz for recommending this specific diamond. The diamond is absolutely gorgeous and full of fire and brilliance!
I wanted to take different images from different angles showing the diamond's wonderful light performance. These images (other than the USB microscope images) were taken on a copy stand with incandescent lighting using a Sony DSC HX200V on a Vanguard SBH-100 Tripod. For the on hand images, my wife (ring size 6) complained that she had just finished using bleach to clean the sink after doing the dishes, so her hands were too reddish - but I think her hands looked lovely regardless!
As you go down you will see that some close-up images were shot with a Lighthouse USB Microscope, and the last group was shot using a high powered LED Flashlight to show the fire in the stone.
I think these came out successful, and represent the incredible quality of the stone, but am not 100% satisfied with my results. The table of the stone was not perfectly clean and detrimentally effected overall picture quality. This is most obvious on the spotlight shots. I struggled to clean the center stone, but had all of the photo equipment setup, and just couldn't get the stone cleaned right, so still went ahead with the shots. I read somewhere that it is very difficult to get oil or grease off diamonds, and this is more evident on a larger stone, especially a Princess. Well it's true! Another issue was that the spot flashlight added a yellow or blue hue to those images. I tried to remove this with Photoshop, but without success.
I know this may more appropriately belong in "Show me the Bling!", but I went through the process of looking for and finding the diamond and setting here at PS on the Rocky Talky forum, so this post supplements my story that played out here.
Again much thanks to the members here who were more than helpful in this process, and especially Jim Schultz and Josh Cales at JA.
I am a very happy puppy!
These next 7 images were taken using a Lighthouse USB Microscope:
These last 6 images were shot while pointing a high powered LED spot flashlight at the stone to show the fire:
I want to personally thank Jim (Allen) Schultz for recommending this specific diamond. The diamond is absolutely gorgeous and full of fire and brilliance!
I wanted to take different images from different angles showing the diamond's wonderful light performance. These images (other than the USB microscope images) were taken on a copy stand with incandescent lighting using a Sony DSC HX200V on a Vanguard SBH-100 Tripod. For the on hand images, my wife (ring size 6) complained that she had just finished using bleach to clean the sink after doing the dishes, so her hands were too reddish - but I think her hands looked lovely regardless!
As you go down you will see that some close-up images were shot with a Lighthouse USB Microscope, and the last group was shot using a high powered LED Flashlight to show the fire in the stone.
I think these came out successful, and represent the incredible quality of the stone, but am not 100% satisfied with my results. The table of the stone was not perfectly clean and detrimentally effected overall picture quality. This is most obvious on the spotlight shots. I struggled to clean the center stone, but had all of the photo equipment setup, and just couldn't get the stone cleaned right, so still went ahead with the shots. I read somewhere that it is very difficult to get oil or grease off diamonds, and this is more evident on a larger stone, especially a Princess. Well it's true! Another issue was that the spot flashlight added a yellow or blue hue to those images. I tried to remove this with Photoshop, but without success.
I know this may more appropriately belong in "Show me the Bling!", but I went through the process of looking for and finding the diamond and setting here at PS on the Rocky Talky forum, so this post supplements my story that played out here.
Again much thanks to the members here who were more than helpful in this process, and especially Jim Schultz and Josh Cales at JA.
I am a very happy puppy!
These next 7 images were taken using a Lighthouse USB Microscope:
These last 6 images were shot while pointing a high powered LED spot flashlight at the stone to show the fire:
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