How is this Tahitian peacock?

[concun]

Hi all,
I need your expertise to help me evaluate this pearl color. It is supposed to be peacock; hence I expect to see array of colors reflecting under sunlight. Instead it looks light gray in real life, and when I snap the picture, it looks dark gray. I don’t know if I have unrealistic expectation. I need your help to evaluate if this pearl is considered as simply gray or peacock? This is the only picture I have. Sorry for the not so clear one.
Thanks a lot.

 

[concun]

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[amoline]

Truthfully I don't see a lot of peacock here in this particular picture, but that's not to say it isn't a beautiful pearl. Pearl overtones, especially Tahitians actually tend to pop LESS in direct sunlight. Most all Tahitian pearls will look steely/gray.

The best/easiest way to get any overtone/peacock to pop is to take a picture by a large light source with some sort of diffusion over it. So, if you have a big window in your house with a white/neutral curtain, or something like that. Alternatively, find the edge of some open shade outside (like just on the inside edge of a garage, for example).

 

[dk168]

Not an expert, however I cannot see 'peacock' in the photo.
'Peacock' can vary in intensity with light ones difficult to see let alone being captured in photos.
Not my overtone of choice as I prefer blues and greens, personal preference and all that.

DK

 

[Pearlescence]

Peacock usually means that the pearl has a general overall colour - green or grey usually - with an 'eye' of aubergine to pink. This is not a fixed blob or patch of a different colour but an effect of the light on nacre so it appears to rotate with the pearl
In this photo of tahitian buttons for example, one is face on and the other is slightly sideways but the pinky/aubergine eye is still in the centre of the visible pearl surface