On the footheels of my first AI experiment, I have decided to move on to other old images to see what the newly installed GPU can really do. In this case, an image that has appeared here before shot on the date of September 26, 2009 at 12:46pm US Central Time in the town of Fair Grove, in the American state of Missouri, a small dot on our planet Earth.
This time, it’s a picture shot on my oldest circa-2004 Canon Digital Rebel XT, weighing in at a quite decent 8 megapixels.
I wanted to up the ante here – so I decided to upscale it (utilizing the same Upscayl app as in in my first experiment) by a factor of 4x, yielding a very heavy resolution of 13,896×9256, a file at an incredible 300MB in size, approximately 128 megapixels.
Being the computer nerd that I am, I wanted to check to see the utilization of my behemoth (at least to me, though tiny by modern gaming standards) GPU. I was astounded to see it utilized at 100%, pulling nearly 100 watts of electricity, working for only about two minutes time to produce the output. The same thing ran for about half an hour on the Thinkpad.
And, of course, I edit everything. As far as saturation goes, having my eyes operated on has completely changed my photography style. Since having cataracts removed and replaced with clear lens implants in 2020, color is all of a sudden jumping out at me everywhere I look. Thinking of it that way, It makes me want to do black and white shots a lot less. I occasionally do a monochrome style. This photo in particular was originally posted as a black and white shot a long time ago (though deleted a long time ago).
As the billions of swifties on planet Earth, many of whom will probably be watching Kansas City Chiefs games now that football season is upon us again, might put it: I am currently in my color era.
Shoot photos, not each other!
Adventures of a Photo Nerd 