Fundoshi Rehash 15 - Teal Voile Part 2

The original photos for this lovely teal fundoshi made of voile can be seen here and here. In the last post-production blitz on the never-before seen extra photos, I tried to make the lighting and color look a bit more natural than the original. 

Today, I do some laborious, but satisfying post-production to highlight the color in the fundoshi. This meant using some filters to heighten the color a bit. The four shots below show the progression from the original to getting the fundoshi's color ultra saturated. I played with saturation, black point, highlights and shadows as well as bumping up the blues a bit. 

 

 

This photo shoes the result of the filters. I was satisfied with the fundoshi, but it did leave the skin tones a bit unsightly. Since my intent is always to show off the fundoshi, I applied a black and white filter, then erased the black and white from the areas of the fundoshi.

I've done this before, and it takes time, patience and a steady hand. I like the results so much, there are a lot of photos for you to go through!

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Fundoshi Rehash 14 - Khaki Cheesecloth Part 2

Back to the extra photos from a shoot using one of my favorite cheesecloth fundoshi. The original photos were seen here and here. This was one of the quickest rehash post-production sessions I've had. I guess it offsets that amount of time it takes to do the spot coloring on some of the rehashes. 

Most of the changes were done in one step.  Below is the original I worked from and the single-click filtered version.  In Aperture, I chose to use the 'color process 1' filter. With one quick press of a button, the filter played with saturation and vibrancy, adjusted the curves and levels, highlights and shadows, sharpened the edges and added a bit of polarization until it came up with the photo on the right.

When I was doing this, I was in a bit of a black and white mood, so I then changed the photo to black and white, increased the black point a bit and added a vignette filter to darken the edges. You may wonder why putting the 'color process filter' on mattered if I was going to put it into black and white anyway. Below is a comparison of the photo from the original in black and white, and the filtered version. I like the strength in the filtered version better.

 

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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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