Shot at the beach of Dar Jerba Hotel Complex, in the island of DJerba.

Djerba is a charming little island on Southern Tunisia, maybe a little damaged (it could be worse...) by the quantity of huge package holidays hotels like the one where this photo was shot.

The beach is awesome, with warm and clear water, a real paradise at half the price of the Caribean.

Following 'UnTrained's suggestion, I did this WS to show that if the shadows were a little brighter the image would 'die', turning into a badly exposed photo.



I haven't used any fancy technique, I just pulled up a bit the left side of the 'color curves' of the histogram, which is the easiest method I know to make selective adjustments on the brightness enphasing either on the darker or on the brighter areas.



I decided to use a photo taken just seconds after the original post because it has less contrast. That is, the original post is even more difficult to manage than this image of the WS.