Photography Nightmares? Do You Have Them?

I dont remember exactly but i remember i broke it once and i woke up not remembering it was a dream and telling my dad :S

Suzy, bring your 5D for the family stuff. However, if you walk around the city shooting, make sure to take either a person along, or just take the 20D. I'd take the 5D, but I mean come on..I'm like 3 times your size.

Sometimes, I have dreams where my friend(s) take and break my XT by dropping it or something. Then I'd take my revenge and post their really bad pics I have here and have you all laugh at them.

Yep ive been there n had them.

Like ive turned up to a job and forgotten my actual camera!

I've had a few photography nightmares usually the night before a shooting (anxiety sets in, I guess) but the worst nightmare went something like this...on a nice day and after what it seems a long time of postponing and re-scheduling an on-location portrait of this very atractive family, we finally agreed on a day. I go over their house. Beautiful day, nice soft light, the perfect conditions. The house had a beautiful back yard (the portrait location) with large trees, banks of flowers and tropical plants, nice ornamental iron benches and a fantastic terrace. I could close my eyes and point at any direction and the backgound will be perfect.
So, I'm setting the family up and taking a couple of test shoots. Exposure, checked. CWB, set. Fill-in flash exposure, set. Compose and...click, good start!
By now you are saying...that's no nightmare, that's a heck of a great dream!
Well, here comes the nightmare part.
Suddenly I'm having a heart attack. The family is looking at me like if I was a ghost. Unbelievable pain in my chest. Cold sweat dripping from my forehead and then everything went black....and then I started dreaming that I was inside of a rescue truck, medics asking me my name and stuff.
You know that short stage when you wake up after a dream and reality is still a foggy feeling? For a few seconds I thought, what a nightmare!
Then I woke up and realized that, this nightmare...was not a dream.
I did actually suffer a heart attack on the morning of Sept 23 in the middle of a paid (had been paid already)shooting. Somewhere between the time that I dropped to the grass and the hospital, I died. Was shocked 4 times before my ticker went on again.
Needless to say, anxiety is not part of my life anymore. I've done 3 more shootings since (plus the disrupted one) and I've learned to stay cool in the pre-shooting day.
Just wanted to share a funny and looooong story. And remember, anxiety can kill you

wow, that's scary.

Anxiety is the worst. It stops me from doing something fun. It makes me worry the whole time before a trip. Yes, I need to let things come by and roll along.

Hey Suzie....I don't know if you had any anxiety before about the trip to NY...but if I read Ronnie's post right...he is planning on coming to the city to mug you for your 5D. Better bring and armed guard or two...just in case.

LOL. I'm from NY. I may have anxiety, but I can knock you over and bite you without even thinking about it. Been there, done that. I'm a city girl. That camera is going to be closer to me than my wallet.

Weather forecast is rain and wind, probably no big floats, the liability is too risky. A few times the balloons actually came down on some bystanders and hurt them badly. One person died. So, the Macy's people will probably decide early tomorrow. I told my boys we will probably pass this time. The parade will be there next year and we've been there in rainy weather before and it isn't that fun.

The parade does lose some of the fun when it is rainy and cold. And if the weather is so bad the balloons are grounded...there isn't a whole lot of point in going...that is the main reason for attending!

Oh yeah, I've had Err 99 dreams, I've had CF card failures, I've had a dead battery, even a stuck lens cap! Worst dream I had was the CF card self-destruct one, I think I was shooting a wedding and that card had all the good stuff on it like the kiss and first dance...cause I remember attempting to explain what happened and then I think I died? Can't remember, but I was all shaken up.

I always have dreams of what is on my mind of that day, it's wierd cause I'm not a very fretful person.

Having some one jump me and steal my camera. Then again in a turn a round I had a dream where B&H sent me a 500mm f/4 IS in the mail by accident.

300Dplus wrote in post #2297261
I've had a few photography nightmares usually the night before a shooting (anxiety sets in, I guess) but the worst nightmare went something like this...on a nice day and after what it seems a long time of postponing and re-scheduling an on-location portrait of this very atractive family, we finally agreed on a day. I go over their house. Beautiful day, nice soft light, the perfect conditions. The house had a beautiful back yard (the portrait location) with large trees, banks of flowers and tropical plants, nice ornamental iron benches and a fantastic terrace. I could close my eyes and point at any direction and the backgound will be perfect.
So, I'm setting the family up and taking a couple of test shoots. Exposure, checked. CWB, set. Fill-in flash exposure, set. Compose and...click, good start!
By now you are saying...that's no nightmare, that's a heck of a great dream!
Well, here comes the nightmare part.
Suddenly I'm having a heart attack. The family is looking at me like if I was a ghost. Unbelievable pain in my chest. Cold sweat dripping from my forehead and then everything went black....and then I started dreaming that I was inside of a rescue truck, medics asking me my name and stuff.
You know that short stage when you wake up after a dream and reality is still a foggy feeling? For a few seconds I thought, what a nightmare!
Then I woke up and realized that, this nightmare...was not a dream.
I did actually suffer a heart attack on the morning of Sept 23 in the middle of a paid (had been paid already)shooting. Somewhere between the time that I dropped to the grass and the hospital, I died. Was shocked 4 times before my ticker went on again.
Needless to say, anxiety is not part of my life anymore. I've done 3 more shootings since (plus the disrupted one) and I've learned to stay cool in the pre-shooting day.
Just wanted to share a funny and looooong story. And remember, anxiety can kill you

Wow, glad you are still here with us and even more amazed that you can even look back and label it even remotely funny!

It's a very sobering reminder that we should live life the way it should be lived today and not wait for tomorrow..

Lightstream wrote in post #2302523
Wow, glad you are still here with us and even more amazed that you can even look back and label it even remotely funny!

It's a very sobering reminder that we should live life the way it should be lived today and not wait for tomorrow..

Thank you Lighstream, it is good to still be around. Oh, you have no idea how hard I try to find humor at every turn of my daily life now. Is part of the new "be happy, not stressed" strategy.
The funny part was the look on their eyes when I was having the heart attack, he,he,he. It is the last thing I remember seeing, and it makes me laugh everytime

300Dplus wrote in post #2303350
Thank you Lighstream, it is good to still be around. Oh, you have no idea how hard I try to find humor at every turn of my daily life now. Is part of the new "be happy, not stressed" strategy.
The funny part was the look on their eyes when I was having the heart attack, he,he,he. It is the last thing I remember seeing, and it makes me laugh everytime

Man, I need to try that strategy..... before it takes a life-changing experience like that to show me

I can almost imagine the look on their faces!