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Michel Maling
If you want to make powerful scrapbooking pages, you need to use emotions to portray the mood. Use those photographs that capture just the right emotions on your layouts for more impact. Scrapbooking is a wonderful way of recording events and special times with our loved ones. You should try and go beyond the public façade, and show how you feel both in good times and bad. You may say you only want to scrapbook the good times, but good or bad, it is part of life. Try to challenge yourself to express some emotion through the pictures that you use on your layouts. You could show through photographs things like joy, anticipation, love, sadness, loneliness and even foolishness. Here are some ideas for you to get your emotions through without necessarily writing about them. To express love people often show people hugging or kissing, but why not try focusing on body language. Maybe photograph two hands clinging to each other, or an arm hanging casually over someone's back. You don't always need to show faces in your photographs. I did see a lovely idea in a scrapbooking layout that depicted loneliness. It was a photograph of a cat on a decaying garden bench surrounded by nothing but an unkempt garden. He just looked so alone lying there on that bench. The artist used this photograph as her background, and put her other photo's around this theme. It was very effective. Anticipation could be depicted by someone doing a bungee jump or just before they come to the ground when they jump off of a ski ramp or out of an airplane. There is nothing like photographing happy children playing to depict joy. Those little faces tell a story of their own. Same thing with happiness. A photo graph showing the running legs of children playing could give the reader a feeling of happiness and freedom. It will be more difficult to find good photographs to underline negative emotions. A photograph of a staircase full of sad people going to work can bring on quite powerful emotions. A subway station can also leave you feeling a little glum, as nobody is smiling. A melancholy mood could be depicted by a photograph of a dark and cloudy day. Robert Plutchik was a philosopher and he identified eight basic emotions - joy, acceptance, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger and anticipation. This list could come in handy when you are thinking about different emotions to portray.
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