What is this?

[Gem Dandy]

I was trying to use my iPad to take a photo of my ring. As I brought the ring closer to the camera, I noticed a reflection on the stone. I can see my neighbor’s house reflected onto the center stone. I was told this was a natural sapphire. Is it actually glass?

 

[Gem Dandy]

I was trying to use my iPad to take a photo of my ring. As I brought the ring closer to the camera, I noticed a reflection on the stone. I can see my neighbor’s house reflected onto the center stone. I was told this was a natural sapphire. Is it actually glass?

 

[Niel]

I was trying to use my iPad to take a photo of my ring. As I brought the ring closer to the camera, I noticed a reflection on the stone. I can see my neighbor’s house reflected onto the center stone. I was told this was a natural sapphire. Is it actually glass?

Natural stones will also reflect off the table if the focus is off

 

[evergreen]

It's normal for the table of a stone - natural, synthetic, expensive, cheap, all of them! - to be highly polished and therefore reflective. Totally fine and says nothing about the stone itself. I bet you can take some cool pictures like that!

 

[evergreen]

This was so hard to do (I think my stone is smaller than yours, haha! It's a diamond) but: the house across the street!

 

[Garry H (Cut Nut)]

Remember old fashioned globes?
One way to see how flat a facet is is to focus not on the stone but into the distance. You can read the writing on a globe if the polish is good - or check straight lines with a fluoro or straight tube.

 

[Gem Dandy]

Thank you Niel, evergreen, and Garry H! I never noticed this before.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

That is so cool
i love it