Joined: Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:56 am Posts: 6461 Location: The frozen north prairie :-/
If you look at the static pictures, you can see that it is one and the same photo. The facet reflections are exactly the same in both photos. This has been photo-shopped to the max . As long as the seller bothered with a video, why didn't he go ahead and change the lights to show the color change/shift? Inquiring minds want to know .
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Joined: Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:00 am Posts: 545 Location: new york
James,
I don't think it is necessarily synthetic. I got a sub carat spinel from this seller for $ 0.99 long ago that was natural but bore no resemblance whatsoever to the picture. It might be much darker and more gray for sure, actually a bluish gray with color shift sounds more like it....
Please, let us know what it is when you will receive it.
Joined: Sat Jul 11, 2009 10:29 am Posts: 928 Location: USA
Video color saturation has been bumped and hues adjusted. Stills have had boat loads of photoshopping done to them! The blue and purple face up shots are the exact same image with the hue changed to simulate the color change! The saturation has also been extremely boosted in the still shots.
Joined: Sat Nov 10, 2007 12:14 am Posts: 57 Location: Canberra / Siem Reap
while teh stone is not in my hands- I am advised by the gemologist that it was sent to that there is no discernible clour change, and the colour is a much steelier blue that the photos would suggest. good calls and thanks every one!
Joined: Sat Jul 11, 2009 10:29 am Posts: 928 Location: USA
Figured as much. I have seen, and actually have here, some of the blue to purple/red cc spinel from Mahenge, beautiful stuff, but never have seen any with those colors in the pics, lol. Sorry it didn't turn out for you though. Did it at least turn out to be natural though?
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