Color and Emotion: Final

My contact sheet consists of the individual colors and emotions and the also group shots. 

My two final shots aren't really what I expected at all but I do like them. I originally planned on having all of the beakers in one shot but the lighting in the chem room wasn't the greatest for any sort of photography. I chose to do the series of all of the beakers because I thought the colors were easier to see and the words are more clear. Some of my shots could have been more focused but I was in a little bit of a rush. For the inverted image, I was trying to get the original colors but it was too hard to edit each color individually so I experimented with different effects. I really loved the way the inverted colors looked but I wanted to change the beakers back to their original colors to still get my original message across. I feel like the "fake" colors aid in the representation of how colors can be manufactured in a lab or by an outside source.

I chose the colors and emotions based on my every day life. The big emotions (happiness, sadness, love, anger and annoyed) occur in my life on a daily basis so they are "bigger" than other emotions. The smaller emotions (envy, fear, passion, confusion, and lust) only occur every once in awhile in my life so they are "smaller" than other emotions.

The individual colors were chosen based on my research and also how I personally associate colors with emotions. Yellow represent happiness because it is bright and joyful. Blue represents sadness because it tends to bring people down ("I feel so blue"). Pink represents love because everything associated with love in our society is pink. Red represents fear because it is a color associated with blood and violence and it tends to draw out an intense reaction from most people. Orange represents annoyed because I just really don't like certain colors of orange and its just a very distracting color. Green represents envy because of the saying "being green with envy". Black represents fear because when afraid, we tend to feel a sense of despair and black is just a void. Purple represents passion because it is a deep and sensual color. The multicolor represents confusion because it is crazy and chaotic which is how your life feels when you are confused. The dark pink represents lust it is darker and deeper than love.