bmah's Crystal Photography

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I see. Looking at some examples online, I see this being an issue for highlighting the crystals, because it would probably be hard to control which crystal faces are reflected, and to what degree. Lighting is everything for mineral photography, and light painting is probably too dynamic to make that work properly.

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Hard thing to master ye. But is indeed possible.

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Cool that just the lens ring alone of a DLSR is enough to get the precise control you need for focus stacking. I didn't know that!

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More stuff.

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I'm not dead!

(p.s. these are still old pics, relatively speaking)
(p.p.s. I'm not adding descriptions anymore unless people are interested)

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the only thing more beautiful than these pictures is you (ღ˘⌣˘ღ)

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Great stuff Brenton!!
I find it funny that I really liked some of the rocks and searched for them on ebay, only to be disappointed that the pictures there look nothing like your photos.

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can i use these for sm gfx?

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Sure, go ahead.

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Sweet. Also pretty sweet that you're still doing this and would like to read descriptions on your recent posts like you did before

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I've enjoyed the descriptions.
also, are these all your crystals, and how much roughly is this sort of stuff worth?

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The photos I make take anywhere from half an hour up to several hours per photo. I think most people on ebay won't want to spend that much time taking photos, or they most likely lack a sufficient macro photography setup. Quite honestly I am often tempted to take phone photos when I sell stuff and reserve these better photos for nice-looking pieces.

Sure I can add descriptions in again then.

Also, if you were looking for gfx for sm files and whatnot, I have other photos not yet shown here.

Out of the stuff I posted so far, all of the specimens belong to me. Later on I'll have a few specimens that belong to other collectors, but almost all specimens are from my own collection. That can change if I can get a photography service going...

The value of these specimens vary greatly. Mineral specimens can range from free (dig it yourself) to several million dollars. I'd say most specimens I have would value below $200, and some others a lot more. Even so, valuation is really subjective compared to other hobbies such as coin or card collecting, where there are annual catalogs that basically dictate prices.

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if you could post them that would be cool. these pictures are really pleasing to look at and i think would make pretty sweet gfx for files.

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No time for descriptions at the moment, will add them later, but for now here are some more old photos:















note: These are all low-res photos. If anyone's interested in a higher-resolution photo, please send me a PM.