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Watermelon Tourmaline
Watermelon Tourmaline
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Collection: Minerals
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Date: Jul 2, 2010
Aperture: 11.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/400
Date Uploaded: Jul 2, 2010

Viewed: 416
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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In response to scalvert... Just about 2/3" long, not very large, although usually the smaller, the more pristine they are...

To Alice, yes, same piece, the processing helped on this one to reduce apparent flaws.. (I know, I know, what a cheater!)

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 08/26/2010 06:18:39 PM
ooh gorgeous chunk of watermelon tourmaline...I still have some rough stones including watermelon touramline floating around, from my gemmology days. Lovely sample!
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 07/29/2010 10:54:52 AM
I wanted to comment on this one because we have a picture to compare composition to. This one is better because the higher angle provides some depth to the crystal. The white background might be too stark. I have often just completely blown BGs out like this and I've started to see the benefit of almost blowing it out, but not quite. It makes for a bit less of a feeling of "floating in white space" and grounds the image.
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 07/13/2010 06:38:31 PM
Gorgeous - I'd love to see these against a deep blue background...
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 07/03/2010 04:40:43 PM
Very, very beautiful.
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 07/03/2010 03:09:21 PM
Lovely, both photographically and scientifically!
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 07/03/2010 01:01:28 PM
Nicely refined image here. The elegant colors stand out.

Is this the same piece? The imperfections seem to have gone away.
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 07/02/2010 08:43:38 PM
GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!
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 07/02/2010 07:46:08 PM
Terrific specimen. How big is it?
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 07/02/2010 06:20:13 PM
You know what may be cool. Put them on a piece of cardboard with a hold and light them from beneath.
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