What is your biggest fear about photography..if not life through the lens

Golf007sd

I have always told my friends and loved ones: limit your regrets and never settle for second best.

Enjoy the video.

PB_PM

My biggest fear is that I'll come to a point where my motivation to seek new ways of seeing things will falter and I'll loose the love of image making.

Fritz

Burnout

Photobug

Losing my mastery of the cameras and composition skills.

proudgeek

Missing the moment.

spraynpray

Business photography damaging my mojo for hobby photography.

Pistnbroke

So true spraynpray and as you get older you are more concerned about eating and pi$$ing than cameras. You only worry about the cameras they can push inside you.

Ha Ha ..not quite got there yet.

spraynpray

"You only worry about the cameras they can push inside you."

LMAO!

Vipmediastar_JZ

Having to give it up. Cell phone photography not included.

donaldejose

That all my efforts will count for nothing in the end.

kenadams

It's not a fear, but at times, I feel like I should really learn how to turn the damn thing off and enjoy the f*** moment while I'm right there instead of trying too hard to conserve it for the years to come.

dissent

... missing focus ...

tcole1983

A couple plus ones in there...
Breaking, losing or getting my gear stolen.
The money/business makes it less like a hobby and more like work...but I have a job already.
Learning that I don't always need my camera with me and enjoying the moment.

bland

I have two fears:

1. Bumping a setting accidentally while shooting concerts because you don't have time to recheck your settings.

2. Drunk biker ladies broads in the crowd.

Both these fears become reality way too often.

Parke1953

Broads, you don't hear or see that word often anymore. Must be an older thing. >-

Bokeh_Hunter

Having my camera bag fall over while open and having all the lenses hit the pavement out of my truck.
Forgetting batteries for my flashes.
Having my flash trigger (odin) break in the middle of a shoot.

That is just the thoughts that went through my head today. Each day realizes another fear that never comes to pass. (knock on wood.)

Msmoto

One advantage of not being a working pro is not having to worry about results. However, I worry, actually about nothing. But, I do forget to adjust equipment properly, and if I do not have it adjusted correctly, find out in the middle of a shoot, well then I worry about anyone hearing the words I am using to vent my frustration with old age.....most begin with consonants.

heartyfisher

I have enough worries in real life. Anytime I can spend on photography and talking photography is pure joy !
No worries Mate !

pigeyejacksn

Kenadams, I couldn't agree with you more. Just got back from Yellowstone and Glacier this summer and went with a bunch of family. To me it was a bucket list place to shoot, and to my family it was time to spend together. Funny, I was so busy taking pictures of the landscape, barely have anything of the family (other than on the phone). Didn't spend as much time as I should have enjoying the moment as I did waking up at 4:30AM all vacation to place myself where I wanted for sunrise. But of course, the one morning I slept in at Glacier, was the one day I regretted. Moon would have been perfect at sunrise and setting right behind the mountain at Many Glaciers. Next day it was too high.

Reality is, digital has saved me from most of my fears. I had a trip to Hawaii years ago. Didn't realize that the light meter was a mess until I got home and had 8 rolls of Ektar 125 were all terribly underexposed (Ektar had jack for latitude). I've never been back to Hawaii, and don't know when I'll have a chance again. I wondered at the time why I had no issues with light on that trip :-).

ThomasHorton

My biggest fears are
1. Being arrested/assulted by the police/security because they think only a terrorist would ever take a picture of an old bridge
2. Being assulted/shot because someone did not like me taking their picture (even if they were not the subject) or a picture of their kids while they were out in public.

Symphotic

... Being arrested/assulted by the police/security....

That almost happened to me in Minsk several years ago. Frankly speaking, Minsk is an ugly town, but great for shooting dilapidated Soviet era architecture. But in my walking around I found an absolutely beautiful building and started shooting it. I was quickly hustled away by my translator when an armed security officer started pointing at us and yelling. It was the Presidential mansion, and photography was not allowed. My translator had actual terror in her eyes. And yes, we got out in a hurry.

We went to the botanic gardens, where there were no restrictions on photography.

Gjesdal

Loosing my sight.
Just had my eyes checked and even if I did had to increase the prescription on my glasses I was told eyes were ok "you're just getting older"....

Photobug

Loosing my sight.
Just had my eyes checked and even if I did had to increase the prescription on my glasses I was told eyes were ok "you're just getting older"....

It is rare that they get better...all you can hope for is that the changes slows down. Mine did for years.

heartyfisher

Loosing my sight.
....

Happened to my brother (detached retina) .. had to give up his photography business and sell his studio. :-(

ThomasHorton

There are blind and visually impared photographers

https://www.flickr.com/groups/blind_photographers/

KnockKnock

Greatest fear is that my D60 will seize-up on a job. Just decide it has had enough. Definitely need a new body in order to have a backup/spare. I guess that goes for any gear. It wouldn't be fear if it's just me tinkering as usual, but for (hopefully) paying gigs it'd be fearfully embarrassing.