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This morning I decided that since we had a bit of steady natural light that I would take a few pictures of my newest sphene. This sphene is a scissorcut emerald shape and amazing to see in person. I do have 2 that are cut the same way, one larger than the other.
This is a lesson for all of us in taking pictures of highly dispersive stones.
First. take valium.. LOL ok kidding (sort of
) you really do have to be very patient when taking pics of these stones. I snapped about 200 pics. Yeah you heard me right!! It helps if you have a tripod or even a mini pod. Also, if you have a camera that has manual settings, its a good idea to make use of them.
Because my Panasonic G1 had a dead battery, I used my Sony Cybershot 8.1.
Cybershot users will love the fact that the manual settings are pretty easy to get to.
For cybershot users only: Here's what I found that works for stones that are highly dispersive: If conditions are in a bright light source, I used an F-stop of between 2.8 and 4.0. Aperture was set between 8 and 13. I left the ISO at auto. The cybershot picked ISO 64. BTW, I am using the macro setting.
I used a multitude of different backgrounds. Blue, black, yellow, green. Single colored backgrounds in primary colors work the best. White does NOT work. Black is iffy. I don't have anything gray.
So I'm going to share the good the bad and the ridiculous. Get some tea and enjoy the show!
-A
This is a lesson for all of us in taking pictures of highly dispersive stones.
First. take valium.. LOL ok kidding (sort of
Because my Panasonic G1 had a dead battery, I used my Sony Cybershot 8.1.
Cybershot users will love the fact that the manual settings are pretty easy to get to.
For cybershot users only: Here's what I found that works for stones that are highly dispersive: If conditions are in a bright light source, I used an F-stop of between 2.8 and 4.0. Aperture was set between 8 and 13. I left the ISO at auto. The cybershot picked ISO 64. BTW, I am using the macro setting.
I used a multitude of different backgrounds. Blue, black, yellow, green. Single colored backgrounds in primary colors work the best. White does NOT work. Black is iffy. I don't have anything gray.
So I'm going to share the good the bad and the ridiculous. Get some tea and enjoy the show!
-A