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In line with the texture discussions, and as an example of art texture work, I’d like to share with you some pictures from my shooting for Brigitte magazine. The magazine is out now ( issue 6, March 2011 ) and you can see those lovely spring moods that we have created on it’s pages.

The concept (Baerbel Recktenwald and Dietlind Wolf) was to show beautiful flower bouquets created by Dietlind Wolf in a more vintage postcard style.

This comes naturally made through the photography technique I use and serves as an example thereof. The casting was also great and we found lovely models, all in all it was great fun to work on this project. It also gave me some new experience and inspiration, as flowers have not been, until now, a part or focus of my work.   And the spring will also come soon to our part of the Earth, so i hope you enjoy this story.

As I promised here is the post processed portrait from my previous post.
The work I did to get this painterly effect with textured surface on this portrait is not so difficult. The textures I am working with are all hand made, this one was not an exception too. In one of my next posts I will tell you  how to create this kind of textures and how to apply them.

You can also comment/contact me if you’ve got points of interest that I could cover in my next posts!

So here is the result, something I created based on what I wrote about in the last post. I used an piece of sheer material I had from some other shooting, to imitate a dress, and a corset that is a bit modern but does the job of creating the look and feel. And  I was lucky to find the crown in one of the antique shops nearby! The photos were made with natural light from a large window.  These are original images, only some color corrections where done and some blur added for the mood, but I’m gonna share later a post-processed one, with one of my textures added.

I tried to recreate my vision of the young beautiful queen here, cheerful and carefree, but at the same time very lonely, longing for love.

Here are some more photos from this “mini-shooting”.

Welcome to my very first post here! Exciting! If you haven’t guessed by now, I’m Lilya Corneli, and I mainly do photography but I have a lot of passion of visual art in general.

Here I will mainly share pieces of visual art, things that inspire me, whether it is something that caught my eye and I feel like it would be interesting for you, or some of my works – of course I will talk about that, especially some of the methods and techniques I use, how I acquire motivation and what drives me to create my images.