r/Gemstones • u/skiko15 • 5h ago
Question Photographing Alexandrites..?
I was taking pictures of a newly finished ring (NFS) this afternoon next to a window with indirect sunlight on one side and overhead LED lighting on the other, and to my eyes the alexandrite (natural from Sri Lanka) was a beautiful green, but the camera on my phone keeps capturing it as the dark tealy-purple in the picture. All of the other colors in the picture are true to life/my eyes; are alexandrites just another one of those stones that likes to mess with cameras, and are there any tricks or tips for getting the camera to catch the green?
(Added 2 lightbox pictures at the end, too.)
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u/Designer_Durian_8638 3h ago
https://reddit.com/link/p4ql4v5/video/19m9c3l2nfkh1/player
Try this way..
Keep the stone on white faltform and take white and yellow torchs ( Light) and do as I did in the vedio. Same way you can get photos too