Hi Everyone
I just purchased an engagement ring from GoG and would like to share some of my personal pictures. Hopefully, this might help someone who's recently looking. Administrator's, if this is in the wrong section, you may move it. However, I am thinking that this post isn't so much about "showing the bling". Part of the reason is because, I want to show my ring under several lighting conditions to assist other potential buyers in making their decision to purchase the right stone.
One of the aspects that I wish a lot of diamond jewelers had is to show pictures of a stone under multiple everyday lighting scenario's and not using fancy smancy artificial lighting. The three most common lighting to me are: compact fluorescent light bulbs in a lamp(diffused lighting), soft white recessed lighting (2700Kelvin of light temperature), and outside overcast lighting (cloudy morning). Also for kicks, I threw in a typical flashlight lighting, Cree XML-T6 LED torch lighting.
The diamond I purchased is a 2014 GIA-certified 1.80 carat, J color, SI1 eye clean, gog premium ideal cut, faint fluorescence, with a HCA score of 1.4.
The second smaller 3-stone diamond ring is my girlfriend's ring that her parents gave her. Based on my micrometer, I estimate it to be 0.26 carat and a G or H color. It is definitely atleast 2 color grades higher. I am not sure about the cut or inclusion but it is certainly not ideal and most likely a SI3 or I1 because it is a little cloudy. Also, it didn't cost that much.
My interior house walls is a dark gray colour. So expect the light to refract that color. Also, all pictures are taken with NO flash, using a Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone. The photos are not edited and they are raw as they come straight off the camera phone. So don't worry, I did not enhance anything! And these are taken on my fingers. The rings are size 3.5.
As you will all come to find out, the color of the diamond behaves differently and at no time did I believe the J was "yellow" or producing a hint of "yellow". I think the diamond was doing a very darn good job of reflecting the color of the light it was given, whether it was diffused warm yellow light, overcast white light, or reflected wall light.
Let's get started below.
Pictures taken under 2700K Interior Recessed Lighting (10 watt LED) - dark gray interior wall colour
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I just purchased an engagement ring from GoG and would like to share some of my personal pictures. Hopefully, this might help someone who's recently looking. Administrator's, if this is in the wrong section, you may move it. However, I am thinking that this post isn't so much about "showing the bling". Part of the reason is because, I want to show my ring under several lighting conditions to assist other potential buyers in making their decision to purchase the right stone.
One of the aspects that I wish a lot of diamond jewelers had is to show pictures of a stone under multiple everyday lighting scenario's and not using fancy smancy artificial lighting. The three most common lighting to me are: compact fluorescent light bulbs in a lamp(diffused lighting), soft white recessed lighting (2700Kelvin of light temperature), and outside overcast lighting (cloudy morning). Also for kicks, I threw in a typical flashlight lighting, Cree XML-T6 LED torch lighting.
The diamond I purchased is a 2014 GIA-certified 1.80 carat, J color, SI1 eye clean, gog premium ideal cut, faint fluorescence, with a HCA score of 1.4.
The second smaller 3-stone diamond ring is my girlfriend's ring that her parents gave her. Based on my micrometer, I estimate it to be 0.26 carat and a G or H color. It is definitely atleast 2 color grades higher. I am not sure about the cut or inclusion but it is certainly not ideal and most likely a SI3 or I1 because it is a little cloudy. Also, it didn't cost that much.
My interior house walls is a dark gray colour. So expect the light to refract that color. Also, all pictures are taken with NO flash, using a Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone. The photos are not edited and they are raw as they come straight off the camera phone. So don't worry, I did not enhance anything! And these are taken on my fingers. The rings are size 3.5.
As you will all come to find out, the color of the diamond behaves differently and at no time did I believe the J was "yellow" or producing a hint of "yellow". I think the diamond was doing a very darn good job of reflecting the color of the light it was given, whether it was diffused warm yellow light, overcast white light, or reflected wall light.
Let's get started below.
Pictures taken under 2700K Interior Recessed Lighting (10 watt LED) - dark gray interior wall colour
Continued on the next post....
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