THE JAR OF COLORS (SEQUENTIAL IMAGES)

BRAINSTORMING AND INITIAL RESEARCH

At the very begining of our research, here we decided that from a persons facial reaction, you could notice so many things, but especially you can see his or her mood.





The concept behind this project is to explain how feelings work through the colours and raise awareness on how to manage mood shift when something happens.

So we searched more about this topic and we have discovered that each colour can be related to a specific mood and also that colours affect your feelings.
For example, there were painters that used specific colours to express and communicate their emotional state . In our recearch we found out one of the artist as Vincent Van Gogh with his painting “The Starry Night”, which makes us interrogate about his use of colours.
There is a relevant use of blue, which means that there is something mysterious and this use of tones reflect his illness. In the meantime, he tried to contrast and fight the cold colours with yellow, a warm colour. He used this colour tone to paint the moon and the stars to raise hope and give some power to the painting.
Ideally in reality people were created usually come in transparency. The change in reaction that brings out the positive or negative outcome "said in Ababio physics





From every colour you can depict that each of them can communicate different expressions of feelings and states of mind.


We have found that we could see things with colours and shapes that we could not see any other way that things we had no words for. A  way of expressing a true feeling.





We chose the jar because we interpretate it as our body.

PROCESSES INTRODUCTION:

To create this project, I and my blog mates made research on the materials needed to creaat the flow of colours.
To reach the final process we used:
1 A glass jar
2 Torch Light
3 Black ink
4 Yellow acrylic colour mixed with water
5 White acrylic colour mixed with water

To create our sequence we used ink, a colored liquid which consists of water and pigments. So, because of its water-based composition when we poured inside of the water it dissolved. About the acrylic colours, we mixed them with water because is more solid due to the less amount of water.



FIRST PROCESS

Here we created the set of items for the photo shoot and we tried to make it white as possible in order to have a clear background. We made use of books, to get the jar placed on top. Then we made use the phone light the jar on  with water on the center of the field and we put tapes to create the main point.





Then, we made use of a phone light behind the jar with the aim of enhancing the colours. We placed the camera in front of the object and we set the focal ratio to ƒ/1.8 with an ISO of 160.


We took photos in HDR and with the use of the "Burst" in photoshop,which was done by (Alessandro). Also capturing most of the colours mixing up with a gentle flow. We then used a phone to shoot the shot around 1500 pictures,trying to get the most preferred sequential image. ref(Alessandro)










SECOND PROCESS

In the second process we did a selection of the best 200 shots and then we put them on Photoshop to edit them.
The tools that we used to modify them are:
1 Curves
2 Hue/Saturation
3 Exposure


With the Curves tool, we modified and enhanced the colours to make them more brighter and to express as best as we can ,what we wanted to communicate. Then we focused on the colour spectrum and we altered each RGB channels.

When we took the pictures we organised them in five processes. In Photoshop we grouped some of them and then we masked the curves to avoid any possible colour alteration due to the colour brightness in the first processes.








Hue/Saturation

Using this tool we modified the tone, the saturation and the brightness of all the pictures to create a seamless sequence.







Exposure

To create a solid white background we used the Exposure. This tool consists of improve the brightness and we used it together with Curves to keep the bright colours such as pink and light blue as most similar as the original one.






Then our final processes were becoming much clearer as we made different modifications
Showing our various transitions of how we worked using photoshop to conclude our sequential images.