[buwaya]

Its a rather fine picture really. If I’d taken that IRL I would be very proud of it.

El Pais is one of the top three Spanish daily newspapers. Its leftist in orientation, but I wouldnt call it hip. Or not more than usual. Call it the Spanish NYT, but with way less attitude.

The Spanish newspaper world is rather center-right in general. Think the NY Post crossed with the WSJ. Or, perhaps, more like the UK press.

[texas booster]

Eldagsen Interview from Talking Pictures

About halfway down these is a discussion about his process to create the picture.

There were twenty stages in all in the creation of that image. Here are some of the key ones…

Step 1: Text-to-image: Creating the image with a text prompt, defining how I want the portrait of the two women to be, describing the expression and emotional quality, the art-historical period, and the photographic and technical specifications such as lens type, shutter speed, aperture, lighting, composition, and resolution.