Worst photography experience....

[Murph]

What was the worst experience with a class/seminar/etc in photography?

MINE: 1981, Photo 318 at Stephen F. Austin State University, the professor decided that this was the class (Lighting) that would "Seperate the men from the boys". We had to use hot lights, 4x5 cameras, and it was the WORST class I have ever taken. It scarred me so bad that for almost 25 years I would not use flashes or artificial lighting at all. I hated the whole class, turned me off photography for a couple of years as well. Just a miserable experience.

[carrbowl]

Some of us have a too recent of experiences and cannot share them on this forum...I wouldn't want to hurt anyone's feelings

[jleyendecker]

so far i have been lucky, but i expect that to change since i have only been shooting for a few years..

[Crashoran]

ugh...I hate hot lights.

[Teddington]

Trying to shoot the Rolex Series (car racing) at Mid-Ohio with a P&S when everybody else had a DSLR and long glass! That didn't last very long!!!

[CaptainTom]

I've never had a truly terrible seminar/class. YET !!!

I always get something out of it.

[Daniel W.]

Middle school yearbook class

Everything was designed on a Mac Performa inside Taylor Pub's awful (think KidPix UI) program, we shot on those walgreen's reloadable dispoasbles.

[Ahh!]

Originally Posted by Crashoran

ugh...I hate hot lights.

I love hot lights. I've never failed to get a hot final result! OK, except my own portrait, but that was due to subject failure!

[hotshot38]

I shot a firefighter carrying a dead child down the street. I didn't know she was dead at the time. Fifteen years later it still haunts me.

Long story short, the shot became a Canadian Press Picture-of-the-Month, published nationwide, and sparked a movement of firefighters installing free smoke detectors for anyone who asked.

-Sean

[Jeff_Green]

My most miserable workshop had to have been Brad's. Okay, so it wasn't so much the workshop as it was a horrible toothache that required a root canal. I couldn't concentrate on anything and had to leave early because I was in so much pain!

I'm still afraid to set foot in his studio for fear it will happen again... Okay, that's not true either but I have yet to make it back there to participate in another workshop as it was a good one!

[Nikolai]

That time I dribbled iced tea down my white shirt at Sergio's studio.

I r special.

[Steelsun]

Being in a small town in the UK and having my battery charger fry/die.
Had to hope a train for an hour to the nearest "larger" town (Cambridge) and find the one place that sold a charger for Canon DSLRs (a Jessops). Got one of those "all in one" chargers that could handle just about any battery - about 40 pounds (~ $100 US).
Sucked.

Then a week later while traveling though Scotland, the camera had a major malfunction where if you dialed in a setting on the thumb wheel (ISO, EV, Av, Tv, etc) it would only progress one way and not back. Required a hard reset to get back to "baseline" each time. So having to shoot the rest of a dream vacation in Auto mode.