Just thought I'd put up some images of shots of stones that may or may not help others instead of filing Lefty's thread. Some food for thought really. But to be honest I have no idea what I'm doing apart from fumbling through. But someone may want to play with an idea. Probably won't be a hell of a lot of posts as life comes before faceting and photography. And if I cut a really bad stone, like the one loitering on my dop now, I'm not really in a hurry to display it.
Camera in these two is an Olympus Pen EP2 with a 60mm (120mm - 35mm) macro lens. The stones were placed on this: https://www.ebay.com/p/Trumpeter-98...le-7-in-Diameter/12011369018?iid=311753283018
I stuck a make up mirror on the top to reduce the amount of scratches visible and used a glass drill to mark the center so the stone remains center to the shot.
One was done inside with the sun shining 90* through the window which really made it dance but the dust ust stood out like dogs . The other was done outside in the shade and came out OK. The music, I don't know. The stone is Peridot AKA ''The evening emerald' I cut about 15 yrs ago.
I'm not sure which looks better
[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/VfnRhOTUjnU[/video]
[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/fhc_rNkY_wI[/video]
Camera in these two is an Olympus Pen EP2 with a 60mm (120mm - 35mm) macro lens. The stones were placed on this: https://www.ebay.com/p/Trumpeter-98...le-7-in-Diameter/12011369018?iid=311753283018
I stuck a make up mirror on the top to reduce the amount of scratches visible and used a glass drill to mark the center so the stone remains center to the shot.
One was done inside with the sun shining 90* through the window which really made it dance but the dust ust stood out like dogs . The other was done outside in the shade and came out OK. The music, I don't know. The stone is Peridot AKA ''The evening emerald' I cut about 15 yrs ago.
I'm not sure which looks better
[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/VfnRhOTUjnU[/video]
[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/fhc_rNkY_wI[/video]