After quite a while, I finally set up my home studio and took some shots with fundoshi. I don't have many designs left that haven't been shown already, but did find a couple and have a few non-designed (plain is such a plain word) fundoshi that haven't been seen yet. Here is the first set to show - a red batiste fundoshi with a swirly type design.
The design is made by taking a small strip of fabric and soaking it in a bleach solution. It is then placed onto the fundoshi, rather haphazardly and left to do its magic! For the photos, I did know I wanted to get a blow-out effect, so used the white backdrop and as many lights as I could muster and keep cool at the same time! As you can see from the first photo, brightness was not exactly achieved. That's okay.....post production, here I come! That also means there are a bunch of natural looking photos left over for some fun 'rehash' blogs! The first thing I did was to simply play with the light temperature, making it a bit cooler.
Next up was to play with the exposure and contrast.
Next up, I added a black and white filter set at about 80%. This left the red as the main color focus in the shot. I then faded the entire photo just a little for the final result.
...more...
...next up on fundoshi fabric and photos - an orange gauze 'plain' fundoshi, tied like a jock strap....
As a side note, I recently started a new series of hotel-room shots of fundoshi that don't really fit my blog, so I have been posting them on my tumblr account. If you are interested, you can find them here: fundoshi alan's space.
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