Fundoshi Rehash 11 - Khaki Cheesecloth Part One

While there are many old shoots with khaki cheesecloth fundoshi, this next set of extra photos comes from here and here. You can also find this same fundoshi in this stripping shoot. 
The progression of changes I made got a bit complicated for this one and some of them appear quite subtle. Here goes...

original

exposure, recovery and black point adjusted 

contrast and saturation were increased

midtone contrast was increased 

changed to black and white mode

reduced the black and white filter

I liked the skin tone achieved by this, but wanted the fundoshi to ʻpopʻ, so I manually painted away all of the black and white filter on the fundoshi. Below is the final results.

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Fundoshi Rehash 10 - Pink Gauze - The Thrid Set

Once again with some surplus fundoshi photos from the Pink and Moody shoot originally found here and here. I think I may have explained that I take many, many, many, many photos, so there are many, many, many, many to choose from!

from the original Pink and Moody fundoshi shoot

 

First, I turned up the exposure just a bit. I then turned up the contrast, saturatinon and vibrancy.

 Next came using a filter from iPhoto called Edge Blur. I liked it so much, I pumped it up to 11. Using this filter made me crop a couple of the photos differently since there is an emphasis on the center of the photo. 

And the final touch is another iPhoto filter called boost. You can see how it increased the colors quite a bit. 

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Fundoshi Rehash 10 - Pink Gauze - The Second Set

There has been some great amounts of color lately, so why not some black and white post-production mayhem? I am still using the surplus fundoshi photos taken in my Pink and Moody shoot originally found here and here.

from the original Pink and Moody fundoshi shoot

 

I know the first photo doesnʻt look like much change has occurred, but I did play a bit with the contrast of the mid-tone areas. The next more obvious photo shows some merriment with the curves adjustment. As you can see above, the selections I made changed the photo quite a bit.

 Now, all that was needed was to apply a black and white filter. I achieved the almost x-ray like quality by further playing with the levels of red, green and blue being used in the black and white filter. 

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Fundoshi Rehash 10 - Pink Gauze - The First Set

For this weekʻs rehash, I am using the surplus fundoshi photos taken in my Pink and Moody shoot originally found here and here. For this set of post-production attempts at trickery, I got inspired by the green and pink of last weekʻs set. Iʻve always been a bit perturbed by the fact my camera and lighting isnʻt quite up to taking dimly lit photos. This means I have a very hard time using colored gels, especially if there is no white light involved. For the Pink and Moody shoot, that was about as dimly lit as I could get with the red gel. Actually, I did a bunch of test shots using a blue gel on one light and the red one on the other. There was not enough light for my camera to get adequate shots, so I was left with using just the red gel.

from the original Pink and Moody fundoshi shoot

Since figuring out how to use two different color monochrome filters at the same time in Aperture, I decided to try to go back to my original idea for this shoot, only using post-production methods. I added a blue, then a red filter to the photos. 

 I then removed the blue from the red parts of the photo, trying to stay true to how light would fall. I will admit, I didnʻt do a very good job at getting the contours right for them, but I am generally happy with the results.

 The next step was to turn down the red a bit, which gave it a more natural look. 

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