In the early ‘80s, Seigel’s experiments mixing metals—like copper and gold—with pigments in the darkroom, yielded heavily toned iridescent images, which Popular Photography praised as “startling” and “refreshingly new” creating “an air of mystery from the commonplace.” Forty years since their creation, the metallic-toned images have burnished, now appearing richer-toned, though still requiring viewing in person to catch the “kinetic” reflections, as Newsday noted. Her “beautiful” images, the rave review elaborated, combine “the immediacy of photographic image and the sensuousness of the painterly-like surface."