What lighting is ideal for "fire"?

[leapinghorse]

Just curious when you are most likely to see flashes of fire or bright color? I was watching a video from good old gold at one point where they switched the lighting and you could then see "fire" off the stone.

Thanks!

 

[BigDiamonds]

I don''t know the technical side, but I have good luck in the mall, restaurants, and my bathroom.

 

[Raspberry]

My diamonds explode under the lighting in casinos.

 

[Garry H (Cut Nut)]

Small point light sources where the main body of light comes from those small sources. LED''s are good, but a bit unreal looking, and so are factory ceiling type lights that are way up high and therefore smaller because they are a long way away.

It is better if the room is otherwise dark (the stone then has little or no brightness to swamp the fire) because then your pupils can be more open and you will get more dispersion / rainbow going in on the back of your eye ball.

Keep both eyes open and you will see up to 2 times as much fire.

 

[oldminer]

Garry on right on this. One would "see" more fire in lighting which already had many colors in it, too. You could trick your eye with a multi-colored lighting environment. Fire is a constant attribute of a well cut diamond. Too much fire is not diamond-like. Very little little fire indicates poor general light return from a diamond or a material which is not diamond.

There are other coloress stones which naturally create more fire than diamond, but when cut like a diamond they don''t look like a diamond should look. Other stones which have very little to no fire don''t look like nice diamonds, either, regardless of cut quality. A casual observer might be fooled, but not anyone else.

MODERATION is the key to beauty as it is to living. Diamond beauty comes from a balance of light return, sparkle (scintillation) and intensity (contrast). Fire is, by the nature of diamond material, mixed in with total light return already. It is more light environment dependent than cut dependent. Garry knows how to cut diamonds with higher fire, but I don''t see much marketing of this cut style or any claims about maximizing fire making any headway. It is too light model dependent to stand alone as a key attribute.