Embarrassing Photo Moments: Concert

Hello and welcome to all of my followers!

I hope everyone out there is having a wonderful day and if you’re not I hope it gets better for you! Today I’m writing about an embarrassing moment I’ve had while in the world of photography. But today’s edition is all about those embarrassing moments while shooting concerts. I’m pretty sure I’ve done some embarrassing things that even I don’t remember. But here are the few I do fully remember.

  One of my favorite that has happened this far into photographing concerts has been one of my first ever concerts in the photo pit. I was trying to stay under crowd viewing level, so I wasn’t blocking anyone’s view. When I went to move forward I tripped over my own feet and fell onto my butt. One of the band members caught this happen and got a good kick out of it also. This has since happened quite a bit in photo pits over the last 4 years. This is also one of my most memorable embarrassing moments. It has since been brought up in a lot of conversations and brought joy to a lot of people.

At one point a couple years ago I was photographing a show that didn’t have a specific photo pit area. At these shows you just kind of make the crowed your own. In doing this, you’re making your way around people who are just trying to enjoy the show without blocking their view. This is where my embarrassing moment comes in. I got super close to the front speakers and was trying to inch my way just inside this are to crouch down and snap a few photos closer up that the back of the crowed. When I finally got down in front, the singer of the band had just decided to move his mic stand to the side. It happened to fall right on top of me. While this isn’t the most embarrassing thing, it still makes the list being the butt of the jokes the rest of the night for being ‘in the way’.

While being in the photo pit, there are many moments where the band might jump down into the photo pit and you must move out of their way quickly. One of those moments I was standing off to the side of the stage and the singer was jumping down to go into the crowd, I had to move backwards quickly and try to not trip. In concentrating on moving, I tripped over my own feet once again and fell back into the wall. I sat and laughed on the side for a few moments before I started taking photos again.

I wouldn’t trade any of these moments for the world. I’ve met amazing people over the last few years doing this, and I have some amazing memories from doing this. Thank you all for reading this.

Have a wonderful day!

~Ashley