Fundoshi Rehash 19 - Patterned in Black Gauze Part 2

The surplus photos used in today's rehash are the extra shots from the shoot originally seen here,  here and here. For the last showing of these pictures, I removed almost all the color and blew out the exposure. For this round, I wanted to see how much color I could enhance based on the original photos.

I started by turning up the saturation and vibrancy.

 














I adjusted the overall levels to increase the darkness of the photo, played around with the contrast a bit and added a vignette filter to darken the edges. The final step was to blur the edges, which is becoming one of my favorite tricks!

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Fundoshi Rehash 21 - Purple Voile - Old Design Part 1

Originally seen here, here and here, I bet you didnʻt think there would be any surplus photos lurking on my hard drive! Since I am shooting myself, I do tend to take more photos than needed to make a 20-30 picture set, just because I donʻt see the results until I am done. The small view on my camera actually doesnʻt give a good idea of what Iʻm capturing. 

For this set, I decided to use a technique Iʻve used in the past with black and white photos, but this time, I kept the color. It basically involves pumping up the contrast and definition so the photo looks a bit ʻharderʻ. You will notice below the transition from the originalʻs soft light and the manipulations involved. I may return to this with other sets, as I like the way they turned out. 

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Fundoshi Rehash 18 - Black Voile Squared Part 2

The original photos today's rehash is based on can be found here and here. For the first rehash of this shoot, I pumped up the exposure and saturations a bit.  For this set of extra photos, I took a similar idea, but in black and white.

Starting with the original, I simply placed a black and white filter, then played a bit with the screens used in the filter. I ultimately increased the filter based on the red and green screens. 

Once that was done, I played a bit with the shadow areas using the curves filter and the highlights and shadows. I then played a bit with the black point and recovery filters to add back some of the lost detail. 

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Fundoshi Rehash 20 - Grey Voile - The Unknown Design

Once again with grey voile, this time in my 'unknown' design. You can see the photos from the original shoot here and here.

For this set of extra photos, I wanted to pump up the color of the fundoshi a bit and create a starker overall look.

To the right is the original.

I first played a bit with the exposure and black point to give a little more drama to the photo.

 

Next was to play with the mid-tone contrast which almost got me to where I wanted. I then turned down the saturation a bit and increased the vibrancy.

 For the final look, I added a vignette filter to darken the photo's edges. 

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Fundoshi Rehash 17 - Burgundy Gauze Part 2

Originally seen here and here, this burgundy fundoshi shoot went quite long with many, many, many surplus photos. 

For today's batch, I started by using the same filters I used in the previous rehash to pump up the color and contrast. 

 

For the final look, I applied a heavy black and white filter and adjusted the individual color channels until I achieved this look.

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Fundoshi Rehash 19 - Patterned in Black Gauze Part 1

The surplus photos used in today's rehash are the extra shots from the shoot originally seen here,  here and here. Even after 3 blogs, I still had extra shots to show!

Since I like this black and white pattern so much, I wanted to see how much of a blow-out I could get to minimize the background and the body, while still being interesting to look at. I must be getting a bit better at the post-production stuff as the desired look took a quick adjustment to only 2 different settings.

Here is the original.

 I then increased the exposure and the black point. This was close, but I wasn't pleased with the skin tones. 

 The saturation was decreased and the definition was increased, and I was pleased!

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Fundoshi Rehash 17 - Burgundy Gauze Part 1

Originally seen here and here, this is the lovely burgundy gauze fundoshi that I took way too many photos of. 

This is from the original shoot.

Here, I decreased the exposure and increased the black point a bit, trying to make it a bit moody.

 

 For the final look, I increased the saturation and vibrancy and added a little contrast.

 

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