When i look at people, all i can see is people.

here is my take at editing it, for what it is worth.

GPT 4o vision of photo editing is quite liberal. Prompt :
"critique this photo and suggest edits".
The resulting critique is quite good, but then it helpfully offer to apply those edit.

Fine, but at this point it's a totally different picture.

Light. On change. On transition. On what lies in between.