How impressive that you figured out how to do this at all! Not having seen the original it’s hard to know how different it is. This result is very believable.
This turned out beautifully but I have to admit AI makes me wonder why I bother with taking pictures. The future of photography seems to be more about creating a picture through editing and AI than actually taking one. I use Lightroom and On1 so I'm not against editing just the potential for misuse.
It does look so realistic (and is a great capture) - before I read the top, I was like ‘Wow - a Safari animal and reflections!’ With AI, I find it makes us more wary of accepting images as they appear.
It's pretty amazing what an AI program can alter and improve (?!) in a picture should the photographer decide to do that. What I like about yours is that it's still mostly your picture especially concerning your subject. I think the ones that go way beyond reality are the ones I'm not crazy about. But this one makes sense and actually looks quite natural. But I'd be like you- play around with it but not using it to generate a completely different image. Good shot.
@ludwigsdiana thanks for guiding me back to that Diana. Apparently, retaining something for more than a day or two, is beyond my capacity at the moment!
Soon AI won’t need the human race… or am I thinking of the scifi movies I watched as a young girl?
@grammyn I did post the original Katy, here https://365project.org/ludwigsdiana/fun-shots/2024-02-11
@haskar Unfortunately so true Hasar :-(