Iphone vs Camera color balance?

[MakingTheGrade]

I recently got a new ring featuring a padparadscha sapphire and a tsavorite garnet and was taking a bunch of photo (like a good pricescoper) on my iPhone (it's easy and I'm lazy). But I was getting really annoyed that the iPhone seemed to amp up the blue spectrum, which made the tsav look rockin, but made the pad look really pink/magenta and sometimes almost purple. And I could not for the life of me pick up the oranges/coral colors that I saw or that were in the vendor photos.

I dug out my little cannon point-n-shoot, nothing fancy, those 120$ little rectangles on amazon lol. The result is much better though still not perfect.

Any idea if I can adjust something on my iPhone to help with color accuracy?
And do you guys notice this with diamonds? I feel like this may be more a problem capturing colored stone nuances when there are numerous subtle tones in a stone.

Photos from vendor (most accurate, likely due to fancy fancy camera and lighting)


Photos from iPhone (too blue/purple)



Photos from Point n Shoot camera:


And under fluro just for fun (a lot of sapphires fluro red, even my blue ones!)

 

[tyty333]

Beautiful! I love the shape you did around the pad. You always do such fun and unique pieces...a talent were not all good at (speaking for myself).

 

[MakingTheGrade]

Beautiful! I love the shape you did around the pad. You always do such fun and unique pieces...a talent were not all good at (speaking for myself).

Thanks! The pad has “petals” to be evocative if the flower and the tsav underneath is meant to be the leaf/pad. The sapphire is in brushed rose gold and the tsav in yellow.

 

[OoohShiny]

If your camera or iPhone offers a range of 'White Balance' or 'Colour Temperature' settings, you could experiment with those to see if one is more accurate.

They may even offer 'custom white balance' settings - in which case one can point the camera at a sheet of white A4 paper placed over the stone (so the lighting is the same as the stone pictures) and then set the white balance to it (I think all cameras have a different process to do this).

 

[MakingTheGrade]

If your camera or iPhone offers a range of 'White Balance' or 'Colour Temperature' settings, you could experiment with those to see if one is more accurate.

They may even offer 'custom white balance' settings - in which case one can point the camera at a sheet of white A4 paper placed over the stone (so the lighting the same as the stone pictures) and then set the white balance to it (I think all cameras have a different process to do this).

My camera does. Not sure my iPhone will let me adjust white balance. Off to google!

 

[OoohShiny]

Good luck, I hope it works!

 

[stracci2000]

I just asked my husband the photographer. He says:
In photography, the two colors are opposites on the color spectrum.
So one color will always look better than the other, when photographed together in the same shot.
Even if you have a white balance on your phone, it may not help.
In the vendor photos, the stones were photographed separately, so that is why the color looks true.

 

[MakingTheGrade]

I just asked my husband the photographer. He says:
In photography, the two colors are opposites on the color spectrum.
So one color will always look better than the other, when photographed together in the same shot.
Even if you have a white balance on your phone, it may not help.
In the vendor photos, the stones were photographed separately, so that is why the color looks true.

Haha. Oops. My bad then.
Tell him thanks for me! Knowing it might not be possible helps me stop obsessing about it.

 

[stracci2000]

Haha. Oops. My bad then.
Tell him thanks for me! Knowing it might not be possible helps me stop obsessing about it.

Glad to help! He always says that cell phones are not real cameras. And even the vendor photos show color variation between them. Lighting and reflections are a big factor, too.
But it is a gorgeous ring and I love your lotus inspiration.
The design is totally outside the box, and creative!

 

[MakingTheGrade]

Glad to help! He always says that cell phones are not real cameras. And even the vendor photos show color variation between them. Lighting and reflections are a big factor, too.
But it is a gorgeous ring and I love your lotus inspiration.
The design is totally outside the box, and creative!

I know but they are so convenient lol.
Thanks! I’m having a lot of fun wearing it and have already fielded many questions of “oh! Where’d you get that?” And “is that an emerald?” Etc.

 

[MakingTheGrade]

Good luck, I hope it works!

No luck googling sadly