How to shoot crystal ornaments to look good?

Tips for identifying crystals are for reference only.

Listen: When you tap with your middle finger, the sound of ordinary glassware is dull, while the sound of crystal ware is brittle and metallic. The harder the crystal, the louder the sound.

Gloss: Compared with sunlight, the colorful light refracted by high-quality crystal is bright, and the transition light is very natural and rich, while the color refracted by glass is often incomplete and dull. Compared with natural light, high-quality crystal has high transparency and is crystal white, while ordinary glass or impure crystal will be yellow or mixed with cyan.

Pattern: For crystals with the same color, the higher the artificial refinement of the pattern, the more detailed and complex the pattern formation in a small area, and the higher the value. When touched by hand, the surface of manual pattern has a rough feeling of pricking hands, while the surface of machine-made pattern is smooth.

Usage: Because the hardness of crystal is much higher than that of ordinary glass, it will not get dirty after long-term use, and the glass is easy to scratch and get dirty after long-term use. Understand three different details of artificial crystal and rock crystal from the aspect of color;

First, the color group and color film of amethyst. In synthetic amethyst, there are often some deep purple flakes with good orientation, which are easily reminiscent of the characteristics of irregular flake color groups in natural amethyst. The biggest difference between the two is that the deep purple clusters in the synthetic amethyst are arranged in a nearly parallel sheet orientation, with little difference in size and shape and obvious boundaries. However, the color group of natural amethyst is random and irregular, with varying shades and gradual boundaries. If the purple blocks in synthetic amethyst are compared to floating "purple cloth blocks", then the purple blocks in natural amethyst can be regarded as floating "purple smoke blocks".

Hexagonal bands and parallel bands. Another feature of natural amethyst is that it has a hexagonal ribbon similar to sapphire. However, the colors in synthetic green crystals are often parallel ribbons, which spread parallel to each other layer by layer along the crystal core wall. There is a synthetic green crystal necklace, yellow and green appear alternately, much like the ribbon of rock crystal, and there are some brown translucent solid impurities in it, which can easily be mistaken for natural green crystal. The ribbons formed by synthetic crystal are distributed in parallel along the crystal core wall, and the whole string of crystal ribbons in the necklace changes in the same way, and the width and color of each ribbon change in the same way, giving people an unnatural feeling of being too "in step".

Third, the inclusions and cotton are crystal clear. In rock crystals, there are often inclusions and sponges, while synthetic crystals are crystal clear, while others have bubbles or solid impurities. Recently, some synthetic crystals often have triangular long tubular pores with green or red powder in them. This kind of long tube is characterized by parallel arrangement in one direction and triangular cross section. There are often uneven green or red powder distributed along the wall, the middle is often empty, and the end of the long tube is often pointed. Real rock crystals are crystals containing actinolite, rutile and other minerals, and each mineral has its own crystal form. They are wrapped in crystals, randomly arranged without direction, with different thickness and length, often accompanied by inclusions and cotton inherent in rock crystals.