Gatzea has been my favorite place for an evening out for many years. Located on the Pagasitikos coast about twenty kilometres from Volos offers a wide variety of activities, including a perfect place for a swim, delicious sea food and local "tsipouro" from grapes. That particular day was really funny. That cloud kept moving above our heads and send its shadow selectively on some parts creating this image where light and shadow played a beautiful game of hide-and-seek. I took several photos but I opted for this one as I thought it created the most interesting contrasts.

Thanks for stopping by and I will greatly appreciate any comments left. Afterall this is the whole fun!


Thanks to Kris_Luxenhofer , a very talented young man for an excellent WS

Hello Argiris,

the only thing I did was:

- croping away the small frame

- using Curves for better balance of colors and lightness

- using shadow/highlight for a well brightness balanced foreground

- after that the sky was too bright so I used a mask to correct the brightness of the sky

- selecting the sky (without clouds) and using surface blur for noise reduction (there was only some noise because of my editing)

- after using surace blur it was a bit unsharp so I used sharpen edges

- maing the new frame

- seting down image size



And if you followed the instruction you can see it´s no problem if sth. makes sh. else unsharp or so, you can always correct hat with an other tool.



Hope you like it,

Cheers! Kris