Hello! I started almost a year ago, around November. Before then, I’d only gone to two concerts my entire life. (Paramore and Jens Lekman, both in Manila. Separate shows though, obviously!)
I went to see Benoit Pioulard live and just fell in love with it. I’d only done portrait, travel, and landscape photography then, so I was ‘swimming in unfamiliar waters’. I still find it very challenging. It’s sort of physically demanding, walking/running around with all that equipment (don’t even get me started on Outside Lands, that was physical torture). You have to be quick to capture the right moments and catch up with the lighting changes.
On the other hand, it’s also terribly expensive. Some shows, you have to travel for. Or rent stuff for (I haven’t, but I feel like I might have to soon). You really have to love it to keep going.