Orange Gauze - Fastened Like a Jock Strap

I do like orange, so decided that even though there is no design on this fundoshi, I would show it off! I found an instruction diagram on tumblr on how to tie a fundoshi like a jock strap and thought it was interesting. I tried to do that here. I probably should have practiced a bit first and I'm not quite sure I got it right!  It also didn't seem to have good 'staying' power and started to fall off almost immediately.  Maybe I'll give it another go in the future and see if I can work the kinks out.


To the right is the original shot with a white background. I knew I wanted to punch it up a bit to bring out the orange, so the first thing I did was to warm up the lighting to add some blues for contrast, and increased the exposure.

I then added a bit of contrast and turned up the saturation. Playing with the curves filter a bit resulted in an even more intense look.

                                                                              

Then, it was on to some filters I rarely use, but I like the result. The polarize filter was applied to the right, then an 'intensify contrast' filter to the left. I stopped, as this gave me the look I was after.

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...next up on fundoshi fabric and photos - a quite revealing plastic experiment....