Rebecca Siminou

online artist 1
Date viewed: March 14, 2008

I have been really interested lately with the use of digital camera to capture images. I came across this artist once on Prof. Small's other class. I have seen here work on the ordover gallery at Balboa Park. I found her online site and started looking at the images. Besides nature, I am also interested in photographing people. I have started to photograph my daughter myself instead of going to those places such as picture people. Nothing wrong about going to those stores, but I feel photographing my daughter myself makes the picture more personal. Plus it gives me something to do anyway, and allows me to explore my creativity more.

One thing I like about Siminou's pictures was the use of foreground object. I like how she does the opposite, instead of making the closer object clearer the background becomes the focal point of the picture. There was one where, she had a water fountain as her foreground, then the two couples were on the background hugging. Eventhough the fountain was sharper, it was still clear that the two blurry images of a couple hugging were the main subject of the photograph. I want to create something like this, maybe with using my daughter as the subject, and I could also do this in some of my landscape pictures.