Victoria Siemer

Is a photographer focusing on photo manipulation using Photoshop.  Her inspirations come from various other artists since she had no formal photography training, she paid attention to others styles, for example street photographer Dave Krugman.  Her works often include a dramatic  environment with strong levels of symmetry, proving a contrast to the wild and abstract locations she is shooting in.  This part of her work is called “Geometric Reflection”.  Here include some examples of her work:

My own responses

I chose to experiment with this as it linked in with the theme of abstract photography and the fact I felt inspired by Victoria Siemer.   The definition for Geometric Abstraction is “Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective (non-representational) compositions. ” .  For my ideas I simply copied the layer of my photograph by pressing ctrl+J.  I then selected an area of a shape using a marquee tool and rotated it to my desired angle.  After this, I used the rubber tool to remove areas I didn’t want to capture a sense of reflection whereas in others I didn’t and simply left them rotated.

I believe this fits well into my theme of abstract and surrealism in photography because these pieces of work emphasis the abstract with the interesting shapes that look quite abnormal.   I believe I have done this successfully because they almost appear quite surreal that the abstraction within the photograph looks as if it is part of the photograph.  Here I have particularity focused on textures as they enhance many of the abstract shapes within the photograph and in some, color too because this exaggerates the abstraction so far that it appears surreal.  I personally enjoy observing the beauty of fine, particular details within a setting and by doing this, I feel inspired to isolate various parts and make them appear surreal.  This therefore poses the idea to you of how a very normal looking viewpoint in day to day life, I use for surprising and strange elements that shouldn’t fit in but do, to express how to others how I can see the world through interesting shapes, colors and textures.