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parfaitelumiere
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 Posted: Sep 28, 2010 07:01 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite specimens? - (8) |
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| am mizunaka wrote: | | An acquisition from Denver this year is my current favorite. |
what a killer!
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clarkymk
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| Posted: Apr 21, 2017 15:06 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite specimens? - (8) |
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I know this thread is really old, but hey! let's see if we can reignite it.
I bought this piece last year. I looked through four flats of yellow fluorite from Aouli,Morocco to find it. I spent about ten minutes scouring through them. They were all rather nice but nothing really wowed me. then, in the final flat a glint of orange caught my eye across the sea of yellow. I picked it up and examined it. It was a group of pristine, translucent crystals growing on a bed of orange chalcedony.
I bought it straight away for only £4.80
it isn't particularly rare or special but it always makes me smile when I look at it.
| Mineral: | Fluorite on Chalcedony |
| Locality: | | Aouli, Mibladen mining district, Mibladen, Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco |  |
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| Dimensions: | 30x25x25mm |
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Tobi
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| Posted: Apr 22, 2017 01:36 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite specimens? |
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| I love those yellow fluorites from Morocco, seems to be a really nice specimen that would deserve a much better photo ;-)
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clarkymk
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| Posted: Apr 22, 2017 10:36 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite specimens? |
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| Tobi wrote: | | I love those yellow fluorites from Morocco, seems to be a really nice specimen that would deserve a much better photo ;-) |
yeah, sorry about the photo. I haven't had much experience photographing minerals.
have you got any advice?
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Jordi Fabre
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| Posted: Apr 22, 2017 12:37 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite specimens? |
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| clarkymk wrote: | | Tobi wrote: | | I love those yellow fluorites from Morocco, seems to be a really nice specimen that would deserve a much better photo ;-) |
Yeah, sorry about the photo. I haven't had much experience photographing minerals.
have you got any advice? |
Here you have a good tutorial: Tutorial to do better photos of minerals by Xiao-dong
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Tobi
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| Posted: Apr 23, 2017 02:39 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite specimens and how to shoot them ;-) |
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| Jordi Fabre wrote: | | clarkymk wrote: | | Tobi wrote: | | I love those yellow fluorites from Morocco, seems to be a really nice specimen that would deserve a much better photo ;-) |
Yeah, sorry about the photo. I haven't had much experience photographing minerals. have you got any advice? |
Here you have a good tutorial: Tutorial to do better photos of minerals by Xiao-dong |
That tutorial is really professional and demands some time and a special editing software. I think you could improve your fluorite photo much more basically: Just take a background that has one colour (try white and black) and use your camera in a way that the photo is not that fuzzy but more focused (maybe more light and moer distance between specimen and camera). Good luck, I hope to see the fine fluorite literally in a new light :-)
Here are some examples from my collection that prove that you don't necessarily need special software to make quite good mineral photos. The following pictures were made only with a simple digital camera, white paper or black fabric as background, natural light from above and some minor post-editing to enhance the contrast or to regulate the colour (often too pale on the photo) to make it look like the original specimen.
If it doesn't work, don't give up! Shooting minerals is a process of trial and error ... with many errors ;-) The following photos are my best ones, most of them took me many attempts. And, believe it or not when you look at these rather good photos, there are still some specimens in my collection that I never managed to shoot, only crappy photos exist that make those minerals look much worse than they are. Nevertheless, even a rather untalented phototographer like me with a simple 150 € Canon camera, the most simple software (Microsoft Office Picture Manager) and without any further equipment (no lamps, no mirrors, just using daylight from above) sometimes has the fortune of getting some shots like this:
| Mineral: | Galena |
| Locality: | | Picher Field, Tri-State District, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | Specimen size 9 cm |
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| Mineral: | Mimetite |
| Locality: | | Haus Baden Mine, Sehringen, Badenweiler mining area, Badenweiler, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | |
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| Dimensions: | FOV 3,5 cm |
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| Mineral: | Quartz |
| Locality: | | Jinkouhe District, Leshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | Specimen size 9 cm |
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| Mineral: | Galena, Dolomite |
| Locality: | | Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor District, North Pennines Orefield, former Cumberland, Cumbria, England / United Kingdom | |
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| Dimensions: | Specimen size 8,5 cm |
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| Mineral: | Calcite |
| Locality: | | Verkhnii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Dalnegorsk Urban District, Primorsky Krai, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | Specimen size 7,5 cm |
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| Mineral: | Smithsonite |
| Locality: | | Kelly Mine, Magdalena, Magdalena District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | Specimen size 7 cm |
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| Mineral: | Sphalerite, Quartz |
| Locality: | | Krushev dol Mine, Madan mining area, Rhodope Mountains, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria | |
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| Dimensions: | Specimen size 7 cm |
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| Mineral: | Quartz (variety amethyst) |
| Locality: | | Orange River, Warmbad, Karasburg District, ǁKaras Region, Namibia | |
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| Dimensions: | Specimen size 5 cm |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite, Quartz, Calcite |
| Locality: | | Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorsky Krai, Russia | |
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| Dimensions: | Specimen size 7 cm |
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| Mineral: | Elbaite |
| Locality: | | Cruzeiro Mine, Santa Maria do Suaçui, Governador Valadares, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
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| Dimensions: | Specimen size 4 cm |
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| Mineral: | Fluorite, Calcite |
| Locality: | | Xianghualing Mine, Xianghualing Sn-polymetallic ore field, Linwu, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China | |
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| Dimensions: | Specimen size 9 cm |
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| Mineral: | Magnetite |
| Locality: | | Cerro Huañaquino, Paco Grande, Tomás Frías Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia | |
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| Dimensions: | Specimen size 9,5 cm |
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| Mineral: | Vanadinite |
| Locality: | | Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | Specimen size 4 cm |
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| Mineral: | Vanadinite |
| Locality: | | Mibladen (Mibladen mining district), Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco | |
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| Dimensions: | Specimen size 3 cm |
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| Mineral: | Wulfenite |
| Locality: | | Erupción Mine (Ahumada Mine), Los Lamentos Mountain Range, Municipio Ahumada, Chihuahua, Mexico | |
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| Dimensions: | Specimen size 6,5 cm |
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Bob Harman
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| Posted: Dec 22, 2018 16:57 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite specimens? - (8) |
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For everyone's 2018 holiday viewing pleasure here are several of my favorite specimens. The key unifying point here is that everyone was self-collected.
These examples are all still in my personal possession. ENJOY!
Again, happy holidays! BOB
| Mineral: | Calcite on Quartz |
| Locality: | | Indiana, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | Geode is close to 30 cm. The area of Calcites is about 20 cm. |
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| Self-collected about 2014. This example is now insured as part of several insured specimens. |
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| Mineral: | Millerite in Baryte and with Quartz |
| Locality: | | State Route 37 road cuts, Harrodsburg, Clear Creek Township, Monroe County, Indiana, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | Millerite strands are about 3 cm. The Barite is about 5.5 cm. |
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Millerite penetrating thru a doubly terminated Barite crystal all on Quartz
Self-collected about 12 years ago. |
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| Mineral: | Millerite and Calcite on Quartz (variety chalcedony) |
| Locality: | | Harrodsburg area, Clear Creek Township, Monroe County, Indiana, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | Millerite strands are over 5 cm in length |
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| Collected at the roadside as a whole geode (hardly considered "field collecting"!) about 2005. Insured as part of my insured specimens. |
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| Mineral: | Calcite on Dolomite |
| Locality: | | State Route 56 road cut, Canton, Washington County, Indiana, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | Geode cavity is about 18 cm. The largest Calcite is about 4 cm |
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Calcites on multicolored Dolomite
This example is very photogenic and, when found, did not need virtually any cleaning. Collected in January 2009. |
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| Mineral: | Baryte on Quartz |
| Locality: | | State Route 37 road cuts, Harrodsburg, Clear Creek Township, Monroe County, Indiana, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | Baryte is 6.0 cm in an 11 cm geode |
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| Perfectly terminated and positioned crystal at the "back" of the geode specimen. Collected about 2008. |
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| Mineral: | Celestine |
| Locality: | | Stoneco Quarry (Lime City Quarry), Lime City, Wood County, Ohio, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | The celestine is doubly terminated and about 6.5 cm. |
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| Celestine on limestone.Collected on a 2005 FoM, Midwest chapter, field trip to this quarry. |
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| Mineral: | Calcite and Sphalerite on Dolomite |
| Locality: | | State Route 56 road cut, Canton, Washington County, Indiana, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | The oval geode is about 20 cm while the Calcites range up to 5+ cm. |
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| Collected in 2011. Needed little cleaning as it, like others from this locality, were very fresh when collected. |
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| Mineral: | Calcite on Quartz |
| Locality: | | Washington County, Indiana, USA | |
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| Dimensions: | The geode is about 20 cm. The Calcites are about 2.5 cm. |
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Private land, Washington County Indiana.
Collected in 2015. I also have the "cap" part of this example. Insured with my others. Also, as many of my larger specimens are, very photogenic. |
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Tobi
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| Posted: Dec 23, 2018 02:16 Post subject: Re: What are your favorite specimens? - (8) |
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| Very impressive specimens Bob, even more because they are self-collected! I understand that these are among your favourites, great finds!
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