Brown Voile Fundoshi - Connect the Dots

The brown voile is slightly thinner that the lighter colored voiles I have. I donʻt know why this is, but it is true of the black as well. Maybe it is cost cutting on the darker colors....the weave can be thinner while looking the same. I donʻt really mind, as it is cool and comfortable to wear!

Today brings a never-before seen design, and I hope you like it.

 



















It was pretty simple to create - just a small brush and a bunch of dots.

I do like the random nature of the bleed that happened while applying the dots.

For the shoot, I kept the lighting to a traditional 2 light setup.  This seemed to work well with the ʻspookyʻ fundoshi. I removed the gel, so there is only white light.

I post production, I did take down the saturation a bit to make the colors a little less vivid. 

fundoshi…brown with a yellow dotted pattern

fabric...100% cotton voile - a favorite

photography…2 light configuration with some desaturation in post production

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Black Fundoshi That Is Oh So Spooky - The Taking Off

Yes, it is that time to take off this fundoshi made of spooky fabric. 

You may recall this is a shoot done with only 2 light sources, one of which has a red gel.

I do like the darkness of this set, especially with the loosely woven cheesecloth coming from the Halloween department and called spooky fabric.

 As you go through the photos, you may notice a bit more of me than normal.

 Like the grey spooky fabric, wearing this does not conform to my normal modesty.....

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Purple Voile: New Fundoshi, Old Design

Back to the showcase of fabric design with a purple fundoshi. The fabric today is voile, and you may recall seeing this fabric before. You may also recall seeing this design in other fabric....it is one of my favorites!

Basically, I discharged the dye in a strip down the middle and along the sides.

This design is one of the first I ever attempted, and continues to be a favorite.

For this series, we have the fundoshi acting as a prop...

...experimenting with the drape and patterns it makes as it cascades over my body.

fundoshi....purple with a striped design

fabric...100% cotton voile - crisp and cool

photography...simple whit light with nothing fancy going on


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Grey ʻSpooky Fabricʻ Fundoshi Part Two - The Putting On

I just love typing ʻspooky fabricʻ.  Whenever I do, I have to do a quick correction as my fingers always type ʻsppkyʻ....

Youʻve seen this loose weave cheesecloth fundoshi a couple blogs back in a ʻgetting to know youʻ series.

Today brings me to actually putting this thing on!

As you may recall (and can certainly see), this is where I am using two light sources, one white and the other green (just for my color-blind friends).

 I havenʻt used the green gels very much, but do like how this turned out. 

 As you may be realizing, you see much more of....ahem....me....than I normally would in a shoot. Chalk it up to me teaching you what to expect if you go out and get some of this fabric.

 A ʻpublic serviceʻ if you will...

fundoshi…grey

fabric...how many different ways to say ʻsppky lss wv chscth fbrcʻ

photography…lighting is the main thing with this shoot - white and green in almost equal intensity

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Not Spooky Frabric Again....The White Fundoshi

For this shoot, I removed the 2nd light and kept it at a single light source. I wanted this series to be stark and have a moody contrast.

The photos in this blog are based on ʻtesting the fabricʻ to see what would happen with the single light source. I know - there has been a lot of testing going on the past 2 blogs with no real fundoshi wearing, but next time brings us back to the normal type of shoot with me wearing the grey cheesecloth fundoshi.

I like how the above shot has an almost waterfall like appearance. As you can tell, I did do a bit of post-production work on these.

The first thing I did was to increase the contrast a little and darken the blacks.

 I then desaturated the photos until just before they turned into true black and white. 

I really like how these combinations made my body hair more obvious and played with the weave of the fabric.

fundoshi…white

fabric...cheesecloth ʻspooky fabricʻ

photography…single light source with a bunch of post-production tricks to desaturate the color, but increase the contrast

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Grey ʻSpooky Fabricʻ Fundoshi - Getting To Know You.....

Getting to know you, getting to know all about you.......

For this particular set of photos, I was playing with the grey spooky fabric to see how it flowed, how it lay across my body, etc. Some of the shots came out nicely, so I put them together in a blog of their own.

 As you can see, I have swapped out the deep red gel for a deep green one. I think it worked well with the grey fundoshi. 

I thought the black ʻspooky fabricʻ would be a bit more revealing as the contrast between my pale skin and the dark black is rather large. For the photos, the grey presented more ʻrevealʻ issues than the black.  I will use this as a teaser....stay tuned for the rest of the shoot in the coming months for the proof of the previous statement.

I am still using a 2 light approach here, as I did in the last blog. For this, I moved the colored light a bit more forward so it would be more obvious. Again, not much done during post-production to influence the look of the photos.

fundoshi… grey....

fabric... loose cheesecloth ʻspooky fabricʻ....

photography…2 light approach, one white, one gelled with deep green.....

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