For todayʻs take on the blue gauze fundoshi, I did a spot color on the fundoshi. Basically, I turned all the colors off in my editing software, except for the cyan channel. This did leave some color left over in some of the photos, but it was much easier than hand painting the color in each picture!
I found a tool in my editing program I havenʻt used before. It allows for an elliptical shape to be masked in the photo, allowing different affects to splash across the picture. I used it for some of the shower shots in a white fundoshi in order to show the subtle colors of the fabric design. To get the affect, I first increased some of the saturation levels, converted to black and white, then applied the tool to remove the black and white application. I think some of these turned out better than others. I may have to spend more time to find a bit more finesse in using the tool.
For this post-production mayhem, my goal was to make the fundoshi photos look like they were part of a cheap newsprint publication that may have been found in someoneʻs attic.
For this take on the grey fundoshi, I gave it a ʻvitageʻ feel by lowering the contrast and saturation of the photos. This left them a little dull, so I used setting in the color channel to try to make the fundoshi color remain a bit more vivid than the rest of the photo.
For the post production on this shoot in a blue gauze fundoshi against a white sheer curtain background, I decided to take a lighter approach than I normally do. I went for a soft, ethereal feel using a white vignette coupled with some glow effects.
fabric - batiste
color - red
funodshi Design - used a plate to outline the large circles and a brush to create the long lines
photo shoot - in bed
