Fundoshi Rehash 9 - Brown Voile Three Ways - Part 1

For the next set of ʻrehashʻ photos, I am in one of my favorite fundoshi. This one is made of brown gauze and the design was made from soaking a twisted length of fabric in bleach, then laying it on top of the fundoshi. Iʻve used the technique a couple of times now. 

There were over 100 leftover photos from the shoot originally seen here and here. For the next blog entries, each one will build upon the last as far as post-production is concerned. Below is the original as seen in the previous blogs mentioned above. 

I first adjusted the temperature of the lighting to make it a little cooler.

Then, the saturation was turned down, making the colors less vibrant.

I know it is hard to tell, but I then increased the shadows a bit, making them lighter, so more detail comes through.

I added some vignette filters to darken then edges a bit.

And then, I used the curves adjustment to play quite a bit with the tone, giving it a blow-out look for the lighting.  I like the graphical nature of this set of adjustments. In the next 2 blogs, I take it even further!

 
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