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Post by christopherl1234 on Jul 8, 2013 19:06:32 GMT -5
Finished this one last night. This one has a lot going on, sagenite sprays, green, yellow, purple and bronze!! 26mm x 19mm x 8.9mm
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Post by Bikerrandy on Jul 8, 2013 19:57:22 GMT -5
Amazing stone!! They sure do make a pretty photo
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Post by Thunder69 on Jul 8, 2013 20:17:33 GMT -5
Thats a beauty.....John
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Post by gemfeller on Jul 8, 2013 20:22:14 GMT -5
Nice one Christopher. Great photo too. What's the source?
Rick
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Post by christopherl1234 on Jul 8, 2013 20:23:16 GMT -5
They make pretty pendants and rings too This one is cut from rough that was mined in Calvillo, Aguas Calientes, Mexico
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Post by talkingstones on Jul 8, 2013 20:23:46 GMT -5
Beautiful, Chris!!! One of these days.....
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Post by orrum on Jul 8, 2013 22:19:36 GMT -5
Oh yes ur bedt one so far Chris!
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Post by billg22 on Jul 8, 2013 23:03:35 GMT -5
Very nice!!!
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Post by roy on Jul 8, 2013 23:26:49 GMT -5
killer fire agate
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Post by adrian65 on Jul 9, 2013 14:11:39 GMT -5
Superb cab, Christopher!
Adrian
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Post by Tony W on Jul 9, 2013 14:12:26 GMT -5
Nice one! And cool reflection too I like 'em when they have assorted bubbles. T
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Post by hand2mouthmining on Jul 9, 2013 15:15:54 GMT -5
Sweet, Christopher!
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Post by pporky on Jul 9, 2013 18:24:58 GMT -5
Beautiful piece Chris , looks 3d in the green
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Post by zarguy on Jul 11, 2013 2:51:32 GMT -5
Beautiful cab Christopher. Keep on cabbing.
Lynn
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Post by Fossilman on Jul 11, 2013 10:28:24 GMT -5
Totally a hit out of the park-OUTSTANDING!!!! Never seen fire agate yet(in person),the pics just rock when I see them online!
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Post by mojojo on Jul 11, 2013 13:09:13 GMT -5
Finished this one last night. This one has a lot going on, sagenite sprays, green, yellow, purple and bronze!! 26mm x 19mm x 8.9mm
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Post by mojojo on Jul 11, 2013 13:47:38 GMT -5
Christopher, I registered here to address your issue of doctored photos and the confusion of two sites. the first site is fireagate.com . The second one is fire-agate.com which is a site from Mexico which in my opinion trys to mimic the original site fireagate.com with questionable photos and stones calling brown fire agate gemstones. The original site fireagate.com has been up for twenty three years and does have the finest fireagate in the world . The reputation of this site is impeccable and i don't believe that anyone can dispute these are the finest fire agate gem stones ever cut!. The pictures were taken by the cutter who designed a inovative way of photographing fireagate which uses intence light filtered down and many inovative constructs and none were photoshoped. When I read your post it seemed to me you were first talking about fireagate.com but then when you refernced the photos , I believe the photos you meant were the ones on fire-agate.com.
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Post by christopherl1234 on Jul 11, 2013 16:11:32 GMT -5
Hello Mojojo,
I do not dispute that there are some fine fire agates at the fireagate.com site. And I was talking about the photos on that site.
What I have mentioned other places is that, in some of the photos the shadows show subtle shades of purple, green, blue,yellow and red.
This can be a tell-tell sign of color processing to enhance the colors inherent in the stone. I stand by this. My hats off to the cutter who you say figured out how to filter light and how to use artificial constructs to come up with his color saturated photos.
I use natural light for 80% of my photos. For the other 20% I use either incandescent, florescent, or LED which I used for the photo of the agate in this post. For the most part I only use artificial lighting when I am excited about a fire agate I just cut and am too impatient to wait for morning to take photographs.
I feel natural light is the best. In addition to capturing good photos of the stone, I feel that natural lighting gives me the best representation of what the stone is going to look like when my clients get the stone or pendant in hand. I rather they be more excited about their purchase when it arrives, because it looks better in person, then have them be let down because what they bought was a super color saturated photo taken with filters and what not, that they do not have, and it will never look like that on their hands or neck......Christopher Anthony
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Post by mojojo on Jul 11, 2013 16:21:19 GMT -5
Hello Mojojo, I do not dispute that there are some fine fire agates at the fireagate.com site. And I was talking about the photos on that site. What I have mentioned other places is that, in some of the photos the shadows show subtle shades of purple, green, blue,yellow and red. This can be a tell-tell sign of color processing to enhance the colors inherent in the stone. I stand by this. My hats off to the cutter who you say figured out how to filter light and how to use artificial constructs to come up with his color saturated photos. I use natural light for 80% of my photos. For the other 20% I use either incandescent, florescent, or LED which I used for the photo of the agate in this post. For the most part I only use artificial lighting when I am excited about a fire agate I just cut and am too impatient to wait for morning to take photographs. I feel natural light is the best. In addition to capturing good photos of the stone, I feel that natural lighting gives me the best representation of what the stone is going to look like when my clients get the stone or pendant in hand. I rather they be more excited about their purchase when it arrives, because it looks better in person, then have them be let down because the what they bought was a super color saturated photo taken with filters and what not, that they do not have, and it will never look like on their hand or neck......Christopher Anthony
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Post by rockjunquie on Jul 12, 2013 14:11:09 GMT -5
Wow! That color is screaming, esp. the green.
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