Christmas Fire !!!

[cflutist]

All this talk of "fire" on the other thread got me a little curious.

Hubby built a light box with white tissue paper covering the openings on the side allowing diffused light to enter the box which also had a white interior. The sun was setting this afternoon shining directly on the outside of the box. I also had a flashlight in hand to shine on my CBI diamond. Hubby captured this picture with the diamond sitting on the black lid of a Costco cashew container inside the white box:



I may be a consumer, but that looks like "fire" to me. I remembered what John Pollard said on my video about this: That the camera lens is clipping dozens (maybe hundreds) of dispersive fans: those are the intense bursts of internal dispersion seen as fire. There was a link to that video in my SMTB thread.

For this photo, I learned that Wink was using a light box with 6000 degree Kelvin lighting and was not wearing any yellow clothing the day he took this photo:



Bottom line: As a consumer, I am eternally grateful for CBI's commitment to 3D optical precision far beyond GIA XXX or AGS0. Their formula increases the size of the virtual facets, making dispersion and scintillation events more visible to human eyes.

I invite you to post your Christmas "fire" photos as well. Merry Christmas everyone !!!

 

[Mikla]

I'm not an expert by any means but it's a great photo! I'm totally jealous of your photography skills, and oh . . . the diamond is awesome!

 

[motownmama]

WOW!! Move this to Show me the Bling!

 

[ame]

For this photo, I learned that Wink was using a light box with 6000 degree Kelvin lighting and was not wearing any yellow clothing the day he took this photo:



Bottom line: As a consumer, I am eternally grateful for CBI's commitment to 3D optical precision far beyond GIA XXX or AGS0. Their formula increases the size of the virtual facets, making dispersion and scintillation events more visible to human eyes.

I invite you to post your Christmas "fire" photos as well. Merry Christmas everyone !!!

GORGEOUS photo!

On first read, I read that bolded part as Wink took this photo while not wearing any clothes.

 

[AprilBaby]

Ohh! A naked Wink picture!
Very pretty!

 

[cflutist]

Dear hubby having more fun with his light box:

 

[cflutist]

Another:

 

[cflutist]

...

 

[ame]

Ohh! A naked Wink picture!
Very pretty!

Totally!

Dear hubby having more fun with his light box:

AMAZING!!! Great work WS!

 

[Texas Leaguer]

Awesome pictures. Congrats on having a diamond so precisely cut that it is capable of re-configuring light with magical results!

 

[marcy]

Great photos cflutist.

 

[cflutist]

Awesome pictures. Congrats on having a diamond so precisely cut that it is capable of re-configuring light with magical results!

Bryan, coming from you, that is quite a compliment. Thank you.
I have seen photos of many beautiful WF ACA diamonds as well on PS.
My hubby has been having fun photographing my diamond inside a white light box.

Mikla
motownmama
ame
April Baby
marcy

Thank you for your kind words as well.

I am eternally grateful to Paul Slegers for crafting this beautiful diamond.

 

[Rosebloom]

I bet that ring is incredible on a plane. For some reason I always seem to get the best fire there. It's gorgeous!

 

[Texas Leaguer]

Awesome pictures. Congrats on having a diamond so precisely cut that it is capable of re-configuring light with magical results!

Bryan, coming from you, that is quite a compliment. Thank you.
I have seen photos of many beautiful WF ACA diamonds as well on PS.
My hubby has been having fun photographing my diamond inside a white light box.

If he was a boyscout he would already have earned his Fire Merit Badge

 

[Sundial]

I keep coming back to this thread to see these photos. Your husband's pictures are incredible and they really capture the fire and beauty of your new ring!

 

[cflutist]

Awesome pictures. Congrats on having a diamond so precisely cut that it is capable of re-configuring light with magical results!

Bryan, coming from you, that is quite a compliment. Thank you.
I have seen photos of many beautiful WF ACA diamonds as well on PS.
My hubby has been having fun photographing my diamond inside a white light box.

If he was a boyscout he would already have earned his Fire Merit Badge

Bryan, Dear hubby is the designated fire starter of his backpacking group.

Sundial and Rosebloom - thank you for your kind words.

I'm just amazed at the dispersion that this diamond puts out.

 

[Texas Leaguer]

Awesome pictures. Congrats on having a diamond so precisely cut that it is capable of re-configuring light with magical results!

Bryan, coming from you, that is quite a compliment. Thank you.
I have seen photos of many beautiful WF ACA diamonds as well on PS.
My hubby has been having fun photographing my diamond inside a white light box.

If he was a boyscout he would already have earned his Fire Merit Badge

Bryan, Dear hubby is the designated fire starter of his backpacking group.

How appropros!

If he asks to borrow your ring before his next backpacking trip, you may have to remind him the term "fire" in diamond is just figurative.

 

[VRBeauty]

Like! Like! Like!

 

[CRYSTAL24K]

Like! Like! Like!

+1

 

[Texas Leaguer]

Here's something to try. Take your ring outside on a clear morning. Have your hubby position himself where he can hold the diamond toward the sun with a darker background (such as greenery or a darker color wood fence). Stand 15 to 25 feet away and have him very slowly move the ring in random directions. You will see those blasts of color with your own eyes. Then trade places.
Other secenarios will obviously work too, but this is the specific setup that I recently experimented with in my back yard. The effects were impressive. The combination of the single intense light source of small angular size (the sun), the dark background to keep the colors from washing out, a longer viewing distance to let the dispersed beams fan out further, overall lighting which is bright making your pupils smaller so they can "clip" small bands of pure color, all conspired to make this most magical aspect of light performance very pronounced.

*Of course this also requires a well cut diamond that has been recently cleaned properly!

Oh, and if your hubby has HD video capability on his camera, he might get some pretty cool vids too.

 

[cflutist]

Here's something to try. Take your ring outside on a clear morning. Have your hubby position himself where he can hold the diamond toward the sun with a darker background (such as greenery or a darker color wood fence). Stand 15 to 25 feet away and have him very slowly move the ring in random directions. You will see those blasts of color with your own eyes. Then trade places.
Other secenarios will obviously work too, but this is the specific setup that I recently experimented with in my back yard. The effects were impressive. The combination of the single intense light source of small angular size (the sun), the dark background to keep the colors from washing out, a longer viewing distance to let the dispersed beams fan out further, overall lighting which is bright making your pupils smaller so they can "clip" small bands of pure color, all conspired to make this most magical aspect of light performance very pronounced.

*Of course this also requires a well cut diamond that has been recently cleaned properly!

Oh, and if your hubby has HD video capability on his camera, he might get some pretty cool vids too.

Thanks Bryan, will try on the next clear day, overcast and cloudy now.

Have already tried the laser pointer trick that John Pollard told me about, that's pretty cool too.

 

[FancyIntense]

I never get tired of seeing photos of diamonds like this. Don't stop

 

[cflutist]

I never get tired of seeing photos of diamonds like this. Don't stop

VRBeauty
CRYSTAL24K
FancyIntense

Thank you all for your kind words. I really like these pictures as well, almost as much as I like my new diamond ring.

 

[Nicoleangela]

This diamond is just amazingly beautiful, and great photography skills.

 

[cflutist]

This diamond is just amazingly beautiful, and great photography skills.

Thank you Nicoleangela, I too think Paul Slegers cuts beautiful CBI diamonds. It grows on me each day.