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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