parties and shoots.. :)

i had the most marvellous coupla days.. wish i could put up pictures but can't coz i'm using the college computers.. home comp's effed up as usual... so here goes...

16th was a friend's birthday party... got all dressed up at N's place with another friend showing me how i had been trumped from the position of the most hyper person around.. she was so much more hyper bout her dress than i have ever been .. and i'm quoting N here!!! upshot of it was that i was ready to go about an hour before these two were done with their dresses n makeup! the three of us got to the party a whole hour later than the time we had set for ourselves.. :) but the party was on all night and it was FUN! old friends who  hadn't met in a loooong time and a lovely bonfire on the roof... yay.... and a nice gossip session once everyone else had left and it was just four girls with alcohol in them talking :)

anyway.. then i went to help abby with her photoshoot the next morning... my sister.. teh professional photographr... and she paid me for acting as her production assistant!!! it was quite a family production actually.. pico jiji's script, abby the photographer and with vrin n me playing assistants to abby.. :) the other ppl there were like.. should we call this shoot the "mathur production" :D
the studio was in this little galli in lado sarai and almost everyone got lost trying to find the way there :) half the morning was spent giving directions on teh phone and running out to the main road to receive people.. by teh end of it my legs felt like they'll fall off coz i was still wearing the high heeled boots i wore for the party

and an entertaining day it was... the models who showed up were quite a bunch... there was a girl who happened to be an LLM student at MY college.. there was this guy who had to play a roadside romeo and quite looked the part, complete with faded jeans n a wierd shirt and sparkly belt before the shot began.. we gave him a much more sober shirt n told him to lose the belt...
and there was this reallllllly cute kid.. about 4 n a half years old.. who played and ran around for hours!! by the  time his turn for the shot came.. he was tired and refused to smile for the camera.. so i stood behind abby and made faces at him to make him laugh.. but he was soooo adorable.. he even scrambled up on top of the dining table being used in the  shot.. he was supposed to steal chocolates from it so he happily clambered up while he was supposed to pretend that  he was reaching for the jar.. and then just coz we all clapped for him.. he did the whole thing over again..

and speaking of adorable.. there was the cutest little puppy on the set.. he was the studio owner's pet and we played with him all day... he's a tiny little pug named Jumbo..and he wore a cute little red coat with paw prints on it!! he kept running onto the set.. he even started running after the kid.. who thought the pup was gonna bite him and got freaked out.. i have sooo many pictures of the dog.. and the set.. wish i could put them up... vrin n i almost had a fight over who would hold the dog.. by the end of it the studio owner was like.. why dont you guys just take him with you.. i'll get another dog..

the highlight of the day however was that towards the end of the day abby and the client's rep decided that they needed another couple of younger models. and vrin and I got to play models!!!!! got makeup done and posed and preened... and managed to actually get a couple of really pretty pictures!!
so what started as a day for us to lug stuff around, manage ppl and serve food, ended with my MY FIRST SHOOT!!! and abby's now promised to shoot my portfolio coz she has to add a fashion shoot to her own portfolio!!!
YAY!