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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 christopherl1234 on Jul 11, 2013 2:46:53 GMT -5
Yes it is a little messy indeed
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Post by christopherl1234 on Jul 10, 2013 1:58:34 GMT -5
These are from today
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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 christopherl1234 on Jul 8, 2013 19:24:53 GMT -5
That sure is some nice looking green.
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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 christopherl1234 on Jul 7, 2013 1:15:57 GMT -5
Nice set you cut.
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Post by christopherl1234 on Jul 4, 2013 3:06:40 GMT -5
This piece is so amazing to me!!! I am in love with this one!!!!
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Lapis
Jul 4, 2013 2:02:38 GMT -5
Post by christopherl1234 on Jul 4, 2013 2:02:38 GMT -5
Had to cut a little lapis today. I have to cut a few more later this week First time I have cut lapis....easy...breezy....
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Post by christopherl1234 on Jul 3, 2013 1:23:42 GMT -5
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Post by christopherl1234 on Jul 2, 2013 2:31:37 GMT -5
I had to cut some amethyst today. This was Bolivian material. It was a joy to cut and extremely clean. The brown specks you see in the triangular cab is actually the background magnified by the stone
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Post by christopherl1234 on Jul 2, 2013 2:24:35 GMT -5
That looks nice!
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Post by christopherl1234 on Jul 1, 2013 5:05:13 GMT -5
Rubbing alcohol takes and residue off for me. I have always used tape. That is how I learned
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Post by christopherl1234 on Jul 1, 2013 3:08:59 GMT -5
Those are some beauties!!!
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Post by christopherl1234 on Jun 30, 2013 13:26:55 GMT -5
Welcome gemfeller, Nice looking fire agate for your avatar. I am a fellow Californian. I am from Oxnard but like out in Bakersfield now.....Please don't ask why....long and complicated. I look forward to seeing any photos you post
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Post by christopherl1234 on Jun 30, 2013 13:17:46 GMT -5
Cut them Randy!!!
Tela I sell 90% of my cabs to jewelry makers. This particular cab went to a pendant maker in Australia. I imagine he will make something out of it.
Thank you all for your kind remarks.
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Post by christopherl1234 on Jun 30, 2013 2:00:25 GMT -5
I finished this one up right before sundown on Friday. It is even bigger than the first one 60mm x 30mm
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Post by christopherl1234 on Jun 28, 2013 3:56:43 GMT -5
Like glassssss.....
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Post by christopherl1234 on Jun 27, 2013 19:44:28 GMT -5
I like that color too. Don't stop now, practice, practice, practice....
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Post by christopherl1234 on Jun 27, 2013 19:40:41 GMT -5
I have visited that web site a lot in the past. I feel, from my experience, that their per carat pricing chart is really just fantasy. I like Kurt have seen some of there cabs stay unsold for years. Who knows they may have just changed the photos stuff had been up there so long. You are welcome to visit my facebook photo albums to get a better idea of current reasonable market pricing www.facebook.com/ChristopherAnthonyJewelry/photos_albumsI sell rough, windowed and finished fire agate on a regular basis. Rough can range from $5 to 100's per pound depending on quality. Your material really does look like the Apache material.
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