Here we go--

Project Name: Sometimes I Feel

Project Description: Masking facial expressions and keeping body language at bay, I’m going to capture human emotions based on color temperature, lighting, and setting. Using these techniques I am taking advantage of how photography captures time, and translating my subject’s emotions through color and light quality.

Conceptual Concerns: Aside from talking, body language and facial expressions often enable others to read our emotions. Our slightest gestures, the way we carry and adorn ourselves, and what we surround ourselves around, give observers a glimpse of our personalities even before we say anything. Without consciously doing so we pick up on each other’s vibes, we read faces and body language, and we intuitively feel another’s energy to categorize how a person is feeling.

We are all too familiar with what it looks like to be happy, tired, or any other basic emotion. We have it engrained in our minds how a lonely sad old man might look or the expression of an excited child. If we took away the physical indicators that we use to describe one’s emotions what do we have? We heavily rely on body language and facial expressions to translate emotion.

Color. They say staring at a certain color more than another can change the way you think and feel. Red makes you feel impulsive (Buy! Buy! Buy!), orange heightens your appetite, green relaxes, and etc. Color explains as much to us as facial features do. When we look at photographs and movies, colors have a lot to do with changing the way we analyze a scene; our feelings and emotions alter depending on the color palettes used.

Technical Skills: Submersing myself in understanding how color affects people. Proper color correction and lighting will be an important aspect to this project. Something I want to really improve on is how I want to display my pieces.

Formal Guidelines: 14 x 16 or bigger, 4+ digital printed photos

Artistic References: Kelli Conell, Elinor Carruci, Kat Macleod, Phillip Toledano

Readings: I need to look up more about them: psychology of color perception and emotions, cinematographic lighting/techniques, non-verbal communication.

Grade: quality of print and image, color, composition, cohesive series, connection with emotions, personal satisfaction (ha!)

Goal List: Find suitable locations, read up, avoid procrastination,