Yes, this answers my question and confirms my suspicions as well. Thanks for the clarifications.

Your post remains muted, because although these images are based on photos, what you have added changes everything. This is not about photography anymore, but about digital editing.

We'd like to focus on photography, which means it's ok to adjust the light, increase shadow, brightness, remove stains or impurities, but not more. You added digitally created background and in some photos I bet the dress is added as well, as I doubt you bought or rented a kimono.

There are communities on Hive for this type of digital edits, but this is not one of them. Please leave this post here, don't post it again in another community, as that means recycling content and it is considered abuse on Hive, but next time make sure you post photos here and choose a different community for these digital manipulations.

Thank you.