2022 Hotel Series 2 - Red Batiste Fundoshi - Newsprint

 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.

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2022 Hotel Series 2 - Grey Voile Fundoshi - Vintage Pop

 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.

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2022 Hotel Series 2 - Blue Gauze Fundoshi - Fade to White

 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. 

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2022 Hotel Series 2 - White Voile Fundoshi - Wet 1

 White voile fundoshi is so comfortable and pretty modest...until it gets wet!  You know I couldnʻt resist a shower shoot.

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2022 Hotel Series 2 - Red Batiste Fundoshi 1

 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

Based on photos of the hotel room on line, I thought the bedspread was red, which is why I brough this particular fundoshi. Unfortunately, it is more of a salmon color, which I donʻt think is quite working with the red. 

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2022 Hotel Series 2 - Grey Voile Fundoshi 1

 For this set of photos in fundoshi, I am wearing one of my favorite designs made with a grey voile fabric. A little old-fashioned tradition ʻput the thing on and take it offʻ shoot!

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2022 Hotel Series 2 - Blue Gauze Fundoshi 1

I took a quick vacation to relax a bit and found myself in another hotel room. We know I canʻt resist figuring out ways to have a fundoshi shoot while staying away from home. My trusty camera recently died on me, so I have a new toy to play with that has a nifty time-lapse feature that allows me to set up automatic snapping in any number of combinations. I found the sweet spot is a picture every 5 seconds. My previous camera only allowed 3 shots in a series, which means every 3 shots I would have to reset the camera. Now, I can set up any number of shots without worrying about leaving the ʻposingʻ space to do a camera reset. 

Thatʻs enough of that...on to the shoot in a soft, comfortable gauze fundoshi against the sheer white curtains of the balcony. In an upcoming series, you will see how I manipulated post-production to get different effects with these curtains, but for today, just the normal lighting and color.

Did I mention this would be a ʻstrip shootʻ from when I got back to the hotel from my wanderings? 

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