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Something about this hits the uncanny valley for me.
Touched-up with AI?
There's just no way it wasn't touched up with AI.. look at the woman's face and hair. Pretty obvious.
Josh Valcarcel is the photographer of this portrait. He has been working as a professional photographer for close to 20 years. He doesn't need AI to make beautiful portraits like these.
Here is an interesting interview with Josh about this portrait specifically and his background in photography.
Let's give this man the credit he deserves instead of AI.
All professional photos are touched up to some degree. It doesn't mean they used AI to do it.