If anything, AI images will lead to raising the bar for good photos since with AI, anyone can get a competent looking generic image with minimal steps. It’s when you’re looking for a specific style, composition and pose that you need to prompt engineer or even use controlnet which is quite hard and at one point it becomes easier to use a camera to get a desired shot.

So photographers would need to put more thought into their work to make it stand out but if you have studied the styles and know what you want to convey, you will be fine.

I’m a big fan of inpainting as it can really save a lot of manual work from Photoshop.