A photo shoot of a noob!

Hello hivers🌸

After months of being dead, I’m back 🙋‍♀️ Honestly, I feel like one of those cavemen who saw the sun for the first time, from Plato’s Allegory of Caves (fist bump if you got the reference)

My post today is about an experiment (more of an adventure in my case) I did with a friend a few months ago. Anyone who knows me well, definitely knows that I barely get my pictures clicked. I looooove clicking pictures of people but it’s something about those lenses that freak me out when they’re facing me. In short - a photo shoot is wayyyyyyy out of my comfort zone. Somehow, my friend convinced me for one in exchange of a tub of vanilla ice cream! (In my defence - I believe in vanilla ice cream supremacy with all my heart)

The shoot location was a flower market. I don’t know if the photo shoot was great. All I know is, on that very day, my respect for models grew so so much! To be confident and be yourself while so many people glued their eyes on you is more difficult than you think. My friend (Basith) is a super talented photographer and I’m very very grateful that he made me so comfortable throughout the shoot. We clicked a few pictures and escalated from a photo shoot to shooting a dance video!

I will be putting up the video on this post as well. I looooveee how he’s played with the color palette and edited the video. I’m still not sure if I’m confident enough to face the camera again but I do know that I can dance in front of a crowd with no two f*cps to give 😂 I had so much fun dancing and just being myself for a change. It just felt liberating and I find that beautiful.

I don’t know if this means much but sending truck loads of love and admiration to photographers and models. If you’re one of them and reading this - I wish nothing but the best for you. The amount of creativity and effort it takes to get each shoot done is crazy.

A huuuuuge shoutout to Basith for pushing me to do this and dealing with all the “Basiiiiith, I can’t do thissssss😩” . You can check out his work on Instagram: Abdul Basith

You can watch the video here:Dance Video

Ending this small post here and hoping I come back with another post with another adventure very soon. Sending good vibes and love.

Until next time, cheers! 🥂