Today was a really productive day in Long Street Photography studio! After looking at Plutchik’s ‘Wheel of Emotions’ I decided I wanted to experiment with my own wheel of emotions through the exploration of facial expressions.
I had the idea of taking different photographs of different facial expressions and experiment with layering the images to emphasise the different muscles the face uses. My friend Jordan agreed to model for me and we both quickly realised how difficult it is to pose for different expressions and saw the similarities in many of the emotions we explored.
I then decided that once I have edited all the images I want to display them and ask people to guess which emotion we was hoping to portray. I watched a video from TED speaker Micheal Stevens a while ago that discussed the idea of how there is no way of knowing whether two people really see colours in the same way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evQsOFQju08 which really helped provide stimulus to my current question: How do we know people experience, understand and interpret emotions in the same way?
Im hoping that this experimentation will help me explore this idea further within my work and I have booked the studio for next week to continue my experimentation.
As you can see from the attached images I had to play around with the set up and lighting a fair bit as the soft lighting that I chose to use meant that the balance was washing out Jordan’s face and jumper.
