Very nice. Obviously, no coffee that morning.

The models in the first image are so true to the era. Nicely done.

Well, I just wrote a reply saying I like the second and use Generative AI to get rid of the young people. Right before I hit send I viewed the image once more and I like the second as is. It's a true passing of the guard image; the old giving way to the young. The young boy ignoring the passage of time (the old folks on the bench) and engaging with the other couple across the frame. The old building standing there suggests that this has been going on for a long time. Great shot.

Thanks. I guess a neighbor's Olds. This was over 60 years ago.

It is the full version of Photoshop.

My dad had Hudsons all the way up to 1955 when they stopped manufacturing. Always plenty of room for my brother and I to sleep across the back seat. And such soft seat fabric.
My brother with our last Hudson outside our house in the Bronx.

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You've got a lot of good advice here. I'm 78 and can't wait for the next great thing. One recommendation I have is to shoot in RAW. You mentioned shooting in low light and Lightroom has a wonderful noise reduction tool that can, at this point, only be used on RAW images.

I'm not surprised at the responses so far on this post. There are clearly two camps on this issue; one wanting to present only images as they essentially come out of the camera and the other of the belief that image creation goes beyond what the camera sees. I'm in the latter camp.
I've attached a link to a story about Ansel Adams most famous photograph, "Moonrise, Hernandez, NM". Included in the story is a video of how the image was created. I find it interesting that not only did Adams manipulate the processing and the printing of the image, but later iterations of the print changed dramatically over time as Adams applied additional techniques to the printing process. I guess he got an upgrade.
My point is image manipulation was possible right after the first Daguerreotype was captured. There is nothing new here, just a different brush.
https://petapixel.com/2018/11/07/the-story-behind-ansel-adams-iconic-moonrise-hernandez/

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I downloaded the Photoshop Beta and dived right into the Generative AI. Like many of you, I got some hysterical results in some situations. Not quite a woman with 3 legs that I saw in another post, but nonetheless, pretty funny. E.g., I asked G AI to fill in the a space occupied by a person and it replaced that person with another grossly deformed human. Still I persevered. And with a bit of patience and persistence was able to alter some photos that I was initially disappointed in. So many times with travel photos you're at the mercy of the crowds. So you take the shot but you wish all the people would have shown up later. Now there's an option. I'm not here to debate right or wrong, original or not, fake or real. I'm just happy to have two images I had hoped for in the first place.

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Wow!