Fundoshi Rehash 16 - Grey Voile

Fundoshi of voile, how lovely to wear, especially in this sunburst design. These surplus photos come from the shoots that made up the following blogs: Grey Sunburst - A New Fundoshi Design, Grey Sunburst - A New Fundoshi Design - Part Two and Grey Sunburst Fundoshi - Up Close and Personal....

 What happened here?  I know most of these are a bit subtle, but I do like the way the final turned out.   First, I increased the exposure slightly and really turned up the black point. You may be noticing I like this adjustment. I played a little with contrast, saturation and the vibrancy. These I kept very minimal. I upped the mid-tone contrast a bit to show a bit more detail. To increase this even more, I applied an edge sharpen filter. The final effect was then blurring the edge of the entire photo to give focus to the center of the pictures. Hope you enjoy! 

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Fundoshi Rehash 13 - Blue Gauze Part 2

Ah - the dots and dashes blue gauze fundoshi originally seen here and here. For the extra photos in part one, I pumped up the brightness and color. Today, I see how to make it a bit of a darker shoot, but retain the vibrancy of the colors.

 

 

 

I started out with the obvious - decrease the exposure and brightness a bit. I increased the blacks, and master contrast as well as turned up the saturation a little. I turned down the highlights so I wouldn't have any white blow-outs in the photos as I continued by playing with the color settings for the blues.  I softened the background, then finally applied a slight fade and a boost. I know that sounds a bit redundant, but it gave me the contrast between the background and foreground I wanted. 

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Fundoshi Rehash 15 - Teal Voile Part 1

For today's fundoshi rehash, I chose extra photos that were previously seen here and here. The original shoot used very dim lighting and a blue gel. For these photos, I wanted to take the whiteness out of the skin tones for a more natural look. 

The first thing I did was adjusted the white balance a bit to take some of the blues out. I dropped the exposure a little, darkening the image. I played darkened the black as well, played with the master contrast a bit as well as the contrast in the mid-tones. I adjusted the master levels a bit, trying to get a more natural look to the colors. I ended it with a little edge sharpening to help define everything.

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Fundoshi Rehash 14 - Khaki Cheesecloth Part 1

For today, I visit the surplus photos from the shoot I originally showed here and here. I know I have rehashed other cheesecloth shoots, but they are some of my favorite fundoshi, so why not? 

Here is the  original.

  

Here is the original. For this rehash set of photos, I only had 1 step. There is an effect in Aperture called 'Color Process 1' and that is what I applied. I liked it, so here it is. Lucky for me there was a single command for this. It actually changed about 11 different settings to achieve the look. 

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