Color in Imagery: Students Investigate Color Emotion in Photo Design

This is an interactive slide show! Feel free to click on the images to enlarge them, move them around, etc. (It's actually pretty cool).

As part of the explorations into the elements of design, students in my digital photography class investigated color in photography and the emotional and design impact behind the different uses of color within imagery. Here are some of the photographs from this project, and you'll notice a few of them have been touched up in Photoshop. Like many of my photography assignments, there were two parts to this project. First, my students were required to investigate each standard color of the rainbow in a photograph, (6 photographs), with special attention given to the emotional impact of each color and the use of that color within the composition of the image. Then, students used one photograph in which they manipulated the color, altered it completely in Photoshop, so that the emotional reaction from a viewer would be different  in the edited photograph than the original image. It was a difficult assignment to be sure, and my students made some incredible process in terms of self-evaluating, (in the end results) and planning, (to capture each color appropriately). I'd love to hear feedback, or perhaps other similar assignments people have worked on that involve the use of exploring color. I would like to change this assignment to include more of a "story" or defined theme aside from just color and emotion, so ideas are certainly welcome!