Most likely. Dodge and burn are just two of the most common tools in a photographer’s arsenal. Pretty much all of the photographs in National Geographic have been altered with these tools, and nobody would call them fake.

Kudos to the artist here. Amazing piece.

I’m not sure of course, but I can’t see any artifacts or anything that looks out of place - I think this one is probably just a great photo. Good exposure, focus, plus the lighting in the image helps out a lot poppin those details and highlights. Would also be really curious if this was altered and if so, how so

On second glance, the beams above her directly seem a liitle strange, they seem like the coloring was modified or something, hard to tell with smoke though