burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

This started as a test of a macro lens (55mm F/3.5 Micro Nikkor, first generation) That a school friend found on a beach in NJ and gave to me as a paper weight. I had EPOI recondition it. Then I ran a roll of Tri-X through the Nikon FTn with the lens.

This was one of the black-and-white negatives from that 1976 test. It is a close up of a pine tree, showing the bark. I made the positive in Negative Lab Pro, from a raw capture with a Lumix macro lens. B&W finishing in NLP and Lightroom Classic, with three neural filters applied in Photoshop until I saw this.

It looks like some sort of ridiculously rich fudge my Mom would have made in the 1960s.

Betcha can't eat this bark!

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Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

It definitely looks edible; some of it appears to be bacon, however

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

Bacon fudge sounds good to me!

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

As I read this, I had a mouth full of vegan b'con.

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Hey Burke, I really appreciated your comments in Chit-Chat today, which I am banned from about the M1 Mac. I've been enjoying your visual forays lately also. I need to upgrade my Mac to start using those neural filters.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Apple Silicon makes everything a lot more speedy than older (Intel) Macs. The Neural Filters take a LOT of processing power and the M1 and later SOCs definitely have enough. Most of the effects I'm using take under ten seconds to process. Those are the most intensive tasks I've had this computer to do, outside of rendering a 44-minute 4K Apple ProRes video. Exports from Lightroom take trivial amounts of time (usually a second or less for the images I'm posting).