Tiger Eye
This is a small polished rock that I bought in a shop in Borrego Springs on our recent trip to Anza Borrego State Park. This has been polished and shines in the light. I tried using strobes to photograph it , but the surface is so shiny and reflective that the resulting image had way too many specular highlights. In the end it was easier to photograph it with soft window light, and put a polarizer on my macro lens.
This is the information that came with the rock. "Tiger Eye is a type of quartz with fibers of asbestos and other minerals trapped inside. Tiger eye is typically golden brown with bands of color shimmer across the surface with a mysterious light like the eye of a tiger. Tiger Eye can also be found in red coloration and blue."
Tiger Eye
This is a small polished rock that I bought in a shop in Borrego Springs on our recent trip to Anza Borrego State Park. This has been polished and shines in the light. I tried using strobes to photograph it , but the surface is so shiny and reflective that the resulting image had way too many specular highlights. In the end it was easier to photograph it with soft window light, and put a polarizer on my macro lens.
This is the information that came with the rock. "Tiger Eye is a type of quartz with fibers of asbestos and other minerals trapped inside. Tiger eye is typically golden brown with bands of color shimmer across the surface with a mysterious light like the eye of a tiger. Tiger Eye can also be found in red coloration and blue."