This is the surface of a piece of pure black coal. it was lit by a 40W desk lamp with the White balance set to neutral fluorescent (5000K). Exposure bias of +0.3.
No post editing whatsoever apart from a slight cropping to remove out of focus parts at the edge.
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I think you must be showing me a vain of coal? Right. I can only guess because there is no way to tell what this is, and that's hard to vote on. Sorry. I see the title but it's really not something interesting to look at. Maybe if you had moved back away a bit.
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