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AGBF|1304791922|2914898 said:I spent a lot of time today just to take several photographs of the spinel...and none of the photos remotely resemble the stone! I will have to wait until my daughter's boyfriend gets home tonight to get them off my memory card and onto my computer into a place where I can move them around. But I may ask a friend's son, who is a professional photographer, to take a few pictures of the stone for me when he has time. Otherwise you will think I bought a dark garnet-colored stone with black markings, if you go by my photographs. Not that I have seen them, but I saw what was in the camera window as I set up I the shots! How can a bright red stone look purple or orangey-brown in the window of a camera?
And, this is a special question for people in the Colored Stones forum, how can a red stone look purple one minute (in a camera window) and orangey-brown the next? Shouldn't bad hue remain either too brown or too purple?
Deb/AGBF
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davi_el_mejor|1304793061|2914911 said:I wish I could come down to there and help you out but work is a little crazy. I'd love to meet the spinel, Griffin, and of course you!
AGBF|1304748344|2914619 said:Before anyone jumps all over me because the, "make" or "cut" of this stone is not perfect, let me tell you that I know it. However, I was looking for color. If you read this thread in its entirety, you will see that I was obsessed with having a true red of the hue and saturation I wanted, the hue that I posted about incessantly to alert others of my exact preference! I didn't really want a "pigeon's blood" because that might be too purple. I had thought I wanted a "stoplight red", but I didn't want a neon glow! Like Goldilocks, I wanted my porridge, "just right". In the end, with this stone, I got the red I wanted, what is, to me, a true red.
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Arcadian|1304958371|2916319 said:Deb, I can tell you that when I went looking at settings for my red spinel, I couldn't bring myself to go with a halo. I guess for now, I'm bored with them... Its a cycle I'm sure that I'm going through...lol Whatever your individual style is, I say go with it. You know what you're going to wear more than anyone else.
I think your red stone will do fine with a couple of side stones because of its size and color. The tanzanite ring is lovely btw!
canuk-gal|1304973336|2916589 said:Wow--what a centerpiece that stone will make! Would you consider setting it E/W--there is one ring on PS that is my all time fav--E/W setting....
AGBF|1304982615|2916761 said:canuk-gal|1304973336|2916589 said:Wow--what a centerpiece that stone will make! Would you consider setting it E/W--there is one ring on PS that is my all time fav--E/W setting....
Do you have a picture of it, Sharon?
Deb