Your Most Embarrassing Photogapher's Moment?

[elguapo]

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[VegasGeorge]

Sorry, mine is yet to happen. But, I'm interested in hearing from others!

[cosworth]

Walking all the way out to the pier, getting everyone set up, check exposure and.. blinky. No CF card. jeeezus.

[Grace]

dancing with two guys at a bar the night before a wedding- then showing up and THEY are two of the groomsmen....and I'm suppose to work around them alllllll day. yeah..kinda embarrassing ;)

last weeks saga... :) http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=325662

[timbernet]

dancing with two guys at a bar the night before a wedding- then showing up and THEY are two of the groomsmen....and I'm suppose to work around them alllllll day. yeah..kinda embarrassing ;)

last weeks saga... :)

Pics or it didn't happen ;-)

[Grace]

pics of what? I didn't take my camera to the bar! :) there will be pics of the wedding party in the wedding section soon, as soon as I stop procrastinating and edit them ;)

[cosworth]

Want a shovel?

[timbernet]

pics of what? I didn't take my camera to the bar! :)

:-( - I was thinking bar shots... ;-)

[cosworth]

Kathy was right above my response. I'm implying "dig a deeper hole". My humour is a little off I guess.

[Grace]

it sucked for about 5 minutes... and then we were good to go...I wish they at least lived out of town and I would never run into them again...but I'm not that lucky..they both live here.. maybe we won't meet again :)

[canuck_newbie]

wondering what went on with Kathy and the 2 guys that embarrased her so much.........intriguing :D

[Woolburr]

pics of what? I didn't take my camera to the bar! :) there will be pics of the wedding party in the wedding section soon, as soon as I stop procrastinating and edit them ;)

Oh sure...tell me you didn't have your little camera phone in your pocket...hehehe...probably have a couple shots of the boys too...but we aren't interested in those.;)

[Grace]

just a little to much booty shakin ;) nothing to incriminating!

[decrink]

About 15 years ago I was on my rookie trip to an exotic locale with my new Canon SLR and tons of books read and excitement about my first travel shoot. The night I arrived I was walking at sunset on the beach in Tel Aviv, Israel ready to make amazing photos. I saw an attractive young lady and motioned to her if I could take her picture. I assumed she was non-English speaking and she posed and let me take lots of pics. Since I had read all the books and really knew my "stuff" I'd made copies of a "model release" so I could make a huge profit with all my brilliant photos. I took one out and motioned for her to sign it, assuming again she wouldn't be able to read it anyway. She looks at me and says "I'm not signing that!" What had been a lovely sign language relationship got very embarrassing as she instructed me she was from Harvard, spoke perfect English, was on vacation with her family and was I stupid or what? Well, she said I could use her picture to show friends but "don't you dare sell it" so there you go. My first photo was my most embarrasing moment.

[Grace]

ha ha ha! that is funny! :)

[johnnybfan]

Went to our boy's tennis practice (high school) last season to get some shots from on the courts. Shot for a few minutes before realizing that I had forgotten to put my CF back in the camera.:( I never close the compartment w/o the card in it but...I guess I did once. Felt pretty stupid. Learned a lesson though.

[saravrose]

uhhmmm... getting the car stuck in Leslie Gulch...

here's the car.. (as I was walking away)..
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/saravrose/landscapes/IMG_9200.jpg

here's the road I walked down..

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/saravrose/landscapes/IMG_9210.jpg

and a random shot as a reason to why I decided to go shoot that canyon, that time of year without telling anybody in my four cylinder car.. and ofcourse to add insult to injury the light was really flat all day long.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/saravrose/landscapes/IMG_9071.jpg

[thekid24]

dancing with two guys at a bar the night before a wedding- then showing up and THEY are two of the groomsmen....and I'm suppose to work around them alllllll day. yeah..kinda embarrassing ;)

last weeks saga... :) http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=325662
:-O You mean they werent your hubby?!?!? Well as long as it wasnt dirty dancing:p

I havent really dont anything embarrassing in front of others but have be embarrassed I did it.

Forget lens cap, but quickly found out when I looked through the viewfinder, I didnt go as far as trying to snap a pic with it on.

Or the ol' "No CF Card" bit, everytime though luckily I had my spare.

Having the camera off when I thought it was on.

[PhotoJourno]

Ok, here is my most recent one (which does not involve Paris Hilton, Lindsey, I was wearing underwear, and no arrests were made).

Took the kid to Disneyland, and of course his super heroe is 'Capt' Jack Sparrow. Well we did well for a few days, but on the third or fourth one, wouldn't you know. The un-real Sparrow himself (not) is walking about the park, and Matt (my 5 yo son) spots him about 400 yards away. He is taking off. The kid, I mean. So I follow, and finally we catch up with the character, who never stops for photos or signatures. Well, we walk enough so that the Pirate notices him, and does the Depp 'fake handshake' (He is going to shake, but then withdraws in disgust), and walks away. My son was in tears, inconsolable.

I told him, "Stick close to daddy, he will talk to Captn Sparrow". I sped up, and got in front of the character. Put my 1D on 8.5 fps, 4GB M jpgs, folks I could go all day in burst mode. I started taking high speed bursts at 24mm -in his face-, until he seemed slightly irritated. Then I said "If they pay me to follow Johnny Depp in Europe, I can stand here all day with you, Captain.." and I pointed to my son. Literally, afterwards in Adobe Bridge I checked, and at one moment over 68 frames were taken in some 31 or 32 seconds.

Finally the 'Captain' turned around, and shook my kids hand. He also signed his book, and posed for a photo (well, I was still in burst, so more like 10 photos).

He then looked at me point blank, and without losing his accent, said "We're square, mate, no need to point that thing at me anymore, if you want something just tell me to my face" (I had, trust me). He then walked away with an escort of unknown pirates.

My kid was in Port Royal Heaven, and people passed me by muttering "Jerk", and "Arsehole". But as much as I was on a mission, the objectives were clear.

Why is is the most embarrasing? Well, because it was Disney, because it was not the real Depp, and because I used my camera to coerce this poor West L.A. soul to scratch my son's signature book with a pen. I always thought I'd use those skills abroad, but no, this time it happened in oh so wonderful Adventure land.

[300Dplus]

...one day last year, I was shooting a family portrait at a local park and after the third or fourth shot my heart decided it was a good time to stop working (talk about timing). Passed out, felt to the ground (no fear, my camera was on the tripod). You know, I wouldn't mind having a heart attack in front of 2 or 3 people...but in front of a group of 10?
The embarrassing moment? My daughter told me the whole story of the events afterwards (she was assisting me with the reflectors and stuff) and the particular point was that I peed all over my pants in front of a bunch of ladies:o :o :o

[PhotoJourno]

...one day last year, I was shooting a family portrait at a local park and after the third or fourth shot my heart decided it was a good time to stop working (talk about timing). Passed out, felt to the ground (no fear, my camera was on the tripod). You know, I wouldn't mind having a heart attack in front of 2 or 3 people...but in front of a group of 10?
The embarrassing moment? My daughter told me the whole story of the events afterwards (she was assisting me with the reflectors and stuff) and the particular point was that I peed all over my pants in front of a bunch of ladies:o :o :o

But you're back to write about it!!... It must have been embarrasing. Glad to hear you stayed away from the light though. :)

[300Dplus]

Glad to hear you stayed away from the light though. :)
Well, I did die and had to be resuscitated twice on the way to the hospital and I didn't see no light, or tunnel or angels:D I guess it was one of those round trip deals...and yes, I'm very lucky, it could've been poop instead of pee-pee:lol:

[EOS Man]

Ok, here is my most recent one (which does not involve Paris Hilton, Lindsey, I was wearing underwear, and no arrests were made).

Took the kid to Disneyland, and of course his super heroe is 'Capt' Jack Sparrow. Well we did well for a few days, but on the third or fourth one, wouldn't you know. The un-real Sparrow himself (not) is walking about the park, and Matt (my 5 yo son) spots him about 400 yards away. He is taking off. The kid, I mean. So I follow, and finally we catch up with the character, who never stops for photos or signatures. Well, we walk enough so that the Pirate notices him, and does the Depp 'fake handshake' (He is going to shake, but then withdraws in disgust), and walks away. My son was in tears, inconsolable.

I told him, "Stick close to daddy, he will talk to Captn Sparrow". I sped up, and got in front of the character. Put my 1D on 8.5 fps, 4GB M jpgs, folks I could go all day in burst mode. I started taking high speed bursts at 24mm -in his face-, until he seemed slightly irritated. Then I said "If they pay me to follow Johnny Depp in Europe, I can stand here all day with you, Captain.." and I pointed to my son. Literally, afterwards in Adobe Bridge I checked, and at one moment over 68 frames were taken in some 31 or 32 seconds.

Finally the 'Captain' turned around, and shook my kids hand. He also signed his book, and posed for a photo (well, I was still in burst, so more like 10 photos).

He then looked at me point blank, and without losing his accent, said "We're square, mate, no need to point that thing at me anymore, if you want something just tell me to my face" (I had, trust me). He then walked away with an escort of unknown pirates.

My kid was in Port Royal Heaven, and people passed me by muttering "Jerk", and "Arsehole". But as much as I was on a mission, the objectives were clear.

Why is is the most embarrasing? Well, because it was Disney, because it was not the real Depp, and because I used my camera to coerce this poor West L.A. soul to scratch my son's signature book with a pen. I always thought I'd use those skills abroad, but no, this time it happened in oh so wonderful Adventure land.

Ah, the many uses of a 1D :lol: , those people passing you should know better: a guy with a big black camera (especially a 1D) means business, not a jerk.

Mine was going to shoot a Buskers event with an empty battery. After taking about 50 shots, the thing died. And I couldn't even share batteries either as everyone around me was using Nikon, not a Canon in sight (except PnS)

[BearSummer]

Hmmm, where to start...

I guess the worst was when I had a day free to photograph a local bluebell wood. Trecked down there on public transport (thats one bus an hour folks) carrying my backpack, tripod, panoramic head and water. Set up and intended to do lots of panoramics, for which I use the tse24 or tse45 both of which are manual focus. Got everything set, remembered that setting the lens to 30ft @ f8 gives a good hyperfocal distance and proceeded to shoot. Set up tripod, level the tripod head, find the brightest point in the scene, manually set the aperture fo f8 and shutter speed for the brightest part. click to the start of the panoramic, close the eye piece shutter then start shooting using the cable release. Work quickly so that the light doesn't change suddenly, grrr clouds. Check on the ickle screen that you havent blown the highlights. Everything seemed fine, had a great day perfect weather and good light. Shot a couple of gigs worth of data, 45 image panoramics using raw eat data like you wouldnt believe. Got home and checked the pictures.... argggh they are all soft.

Went through my process, checked everything, checked the math for the hyperfocal distance was right, was using the right lens.... pulled the lens out and checked it. It has two scales, one in feet and one in meters. The meter scale jumps from 5 to infinity and the foot scale goes up to 10 and.... damn had set it to 10 feet and not 10 meters.

Just meant that I had to go back the following day and do it all again. Well it got me two days out of the office.

Regards

BearSummer

[Grace]

OMG Sari, thats funny and sad..the joys of being Ms. Independent! Sooo been there!
Mario, I can just see you..I about spit out my coffee- and really- I want to know what your wife thought about you acting like that- I would have laughed at you then hid behind bushes claiming not to know you!! and heart attack guy- thats scary more than embarrassing!!! well, except that you peed in you pants! :) But I wouldn't have laughed at that! glad you here now ;)

[-spam-]

Mine would have to be one of the many days that ive taken a treck through town to kill some spare time. Got on a ferry with my 400d with grip and my dads sigma 17-70 with hood. Some people asked me if i was shooting for the local rag, i know i shouldnt have but i said yes. They asked me to take their photo with the Story Bridge (http://www.flickr.com/photos/-spam-/415467739/in/set-72157600015199259/) in the back ground in case it would end up in the paper.

So i went to take their photo, turned on the camera only to see "change the battery pack" show up on the screen. Then i had to come up with an excuse why they couldnt take a look at the photo on the camera. I got out of it (some how) and quickly got off at the next stop. :oops:

[JCR]

Jesus you lot are screwups :D
worst I have done so far is left the lenscap on, but there's still time to better it I'm sure.

[cowpix]

Well, in 29 years I've had a few..

There was the time that the farmer's daughter-oh wait, I had better not go there!

I flew to Mississippi one time for a major company, to do a shoot. I was met at the airport by 2 company big shots, and we drove out to the middle of nowhere for the shoot. Now I am looking frantically for my film, and realize I left without packing it. In those days I used Hasselblads, so I need 120 or 220 film. Where am I going to find that in the middle of freakin nowhere? We drove around and found some dinky drugstore, and they had 1 roll of 120 film of some kind. 12 exposures, and I have 7 subjects. Well, I managed to pull it off, and they got what they wanted. I sure didn't feel very professional that day. :oops:

[Miyagi-san]

lol, some good stories....I have a pretty good one that I don't want to share but WTH why not...I hope the title fairy doesn't see this post lol....

*It should be noted before this story begins, that i am quite colorblind.....okay, read on....

Back in Feb I broke in my new Sigma 150mm lens downtown shooting candids. There was some kind of festival going on and people of all types were EVERYWHERE. The city was just packed, a candid shooter's dream.

I was having an awesome time, but it was COLD out....I mean COLD COLD COLD and I wasn't dressed properly for it.

I had to take a quick break and find a store that sold gloves....which I did quick enough. I sorted through their bin and found a nice pair. Two-tone white and black gloves.....nice....I'm all set.

I put on my new gloves and head out and shoot for another 2 hours. Everyone is looking at me with a funny look....must be looking at my nice new Sigma 150mm, it is an impressive lens after all....quite proud of it actually.

I shoot the rest of the day showing off my nice EX finish lens...capturing some nice images, with a big ego.

Time to go home, the whole drive thinking "man, this lens got me a lot of attention today, how awesome! great lens! GREAT lens!"

I get home, gloves still on....walk in the door and my wife is staring at me in silence, her jaw almost on the floor. She finally composes herself enough to ask about my pink and black gloves.

-The end :)

[PhotoJourno]

Mario, I can just see you..I about spit out my coffee- and really- I want to know what your wife thought about you acting like that- I would have laughed at you then hid behind bushes claiming not to know you!!

Dear KP,

Apparently they don't let you beat up cranky characters at Disney anymore.

What my wife thought about me acting like that?... She rolled her eyes, and said "Your funny Hunny" (Which I am starting to realize is more of a sarcastic insult, than a compliment...After all, I once did think I was funny).

She is not the supportive type, as it were. A couple of weeks ago, I printed and framed three photos that would go on a regional Contest, and when I asked if she liked them, her immediate response was "How did you pay for the frame? Aren't you losing your money if the photos don't win?".

Sometimes to piss me off, she will go and have the kids (5yo and 8mo old) have their portraits taken by the Mall's studio.

What can I do. Maybe I will buy her a Nikon for Christmas. :)