The author wants to investigate how manipulating color in landscape photographs can change people's perceptions. They will take the same landscape photo in black and white and color versions. By asking people about how the different photos make them feel, the author aims to understand and show the psychological effects of color. Research suggests colors can influence moods and feelings through social/cultural associations and innate reactions, like how the color red can increase heart rate due to evolutionary links to danger. The author will look at the work of black and white landscape photographers Ansel Adams and Martin Henson, as well as Manuel Cosentino who photographed the same landscape over two years, for inspiration.

1. Roisin Heekin

2. The theme within colour that I have chosen to
investigate is how manipulating colour within a
photographic landscape can change the way
people perceive the photograph.
Colours can make us feel happy or sad… they
can make us feel hungry or relaxed, and in my
project I want to show and understand the
psychological effects colours might have on the
viewer.

3. There are several reasons why colours are able to
influence how we feel. Leslie Harrington, executive
director of The Colour Association of The United States
quotes "We react on multiple levels of association with
colours -- there are social or culture levels as well as
personal relationships with particular colours."
It has also been theorised that people also have an innate
reaction to colour. For example, when one looks at red, it
can increase the heart rate; it can be for many people a
stimulating colour. This has been linked to caveman days
were red represented of fire, danger and alarm.

4. I want to experiment with this by editing the
same landscape photograph, having one in
black and white, and the other in colour.
After doing this I will be able to ask people
how they feel about the different photos and
how by changing the colour can change how
a person will perceive it.

5. Photographers in which I might look as are:
Ansel Adams and Martin Henson
They are both black and white landscape
photographers
Meaning they will help shows the depth of
comparision

6. another photographer is:
Manuel Cosentino
I have chosen to look at
Cosentino because he took
the same photograph over
the course of 2 years to
show the change in the
landscape.
Which ties in to my work as
I am also looking at the
change in the landscapes