How to Sneak a Camera Into a Concert

How to Sneak a Camera Into a Concert. Be apologetic and act ignorant. Take a cinch bag and a hoodie, wrap you camera into your hoodie and put the hoodie in you bag. if the guard asks to see your bag give it to them most guards don’t check in the hoodie. Put in some cash, a phone, etc. to make it look inconspicuous.

Steps

With tabloids, gossip, and copyright infringement running rampant, a lock-down on what is allowed inside concert halls has been enforced. While it is perfectly legal to take pictures of a person sell them as tabloid trash or artwork, most bands would prefer to make you pay for those opportunities. Therefore many places have legally restricted your available photo-taking opportunities. Here’s how to get around it.

Step 1: Examine Your Camera

1. Examine your camera. Is it your average point-and-shoot pocket camera? If so, there’s a chance it will be allowed inside. Check before taking measures to sneak it in.

Step 2: Check Its Size

1. Check its size. Most cameras now are going for a thin feel and look, and this works to your advantage. Fatter cameras are generally not as tall; use the dimensions to help you feel out places it can go.

Step 3: Find a Place to Put Your Camera

1. Find a place to put your camera. It can be in a pocket, purse, concealed in clothing, or strapped to your body. Here are a few methods:

Method 1: Baggy Sweatshirt

1. Wear a large, baggy sweatshirt with nothing underneath (this is particularly effective if you are female).
2. Use your camera’s strap or a strap from somewhere else to sling it over your shoulder.
3. Secure it so it hangs right in the pit of your back where it curves in before your buttocks.
4. Put your sweatshirt on over it. If the guards ask you to remove your sweatshirt, lift the front up a bit to show them that you can’t, as you have nothing on underneath.

Method 2: Conceal in a Purse

1. Take your purse (or the purse of a female accompanying you, if you are male).
2. Either cut out the lining on the bottom or find material like it and cut a piece that fits.
3. Lift it and place your camera in the bottom.
4. Fill the remaining space with soft material, both to protect your camera and solidify the bottom again.
5. Replace the lining. Throw some tampons on top. Most bouncers will not dig around very thoroughly.

Method 3: Underarm Concealment

1. Wear a somewhat baggy long sleeve shirt.
2. If your camera is small enough, strap it with some tape or a strap to your underarm.
3. Be warned, if you are going to an establishment with a gun threat, you are likely to be frisked and this is easily found through touch.

Method 4: Crotch It

1. Similar to the underarm technique, wear baggy pants and strap it to your inner thigh, very close to your private area.
2. There’s a very good chance you won’t be searched thoroughly here.
3. If you are a female, wear a mid-length fluffy skirt. Not only will you not be touched there, a skirt looks open enough to allay suspicion, though it conceals very well.

Method 5: Wallet Concealment

1. If you have a small and thin wallet, empty most of your wallet and tape it to the inside of the wallet.
2. Keep your wallet in a large pocket and if frisked, when they ask what’s in your pocket, immediately say it’s just your wallet.

Method 6: Professional Grade Camera

1. If you’re using a professional-grade camera with a lens, this may work for you. You’ll need a friend.
2. Take your camera, a separate body you won’t be shooting with, and two lenses.
3. Have your friend conceal one lens well and one lens very conspicuously.
4. Do the same with your two camera bodies.
5. When the lens is found, have them give it up obligingly and apologize to you, where you will step up, possibly curse or look abashed, and hand over your dummy camera body.
6. These will be tagged for pickup after the show, and it is unlikely they will search you for a second camera.

Method 7: Hair Concealment

1. Ladies: Fluff and tease your hair up to a nice volume.
2. Get a poofy sort of hat, like the ones Britney Spears is fond of.
3. Pull some of your hair into a poof on top of your head, and conceal your camera inside.
4. Top it off with your big hat and you’re good to go. Security may ask you to remove your hat though, counteracting this technique.

Method 8: Glove Concealment

1. Use your gloves. Get one pair of gloves, and a third of the same or a similar type.
2. Place your camera inside one glove, and wear the other two.
3. When in line, place your camera glove someplace inconspicuous but where you might set your gloves normally.
4. When in plain sight of a bouncer, or right before being searched, obviously take your gloves off and place them on top of the third.
5. Then pick them up in one hand or set them on the table with your jacket and umbrella, or something of the sort.

Step 4: Camera in Shoe

1. If your camera is strong and thin enough, put your camera in your shoe.
2. I doubt that the guard would ask you to take off your shoes.
3. When in there, go into the bathroom and take the camera out of your shoe; put the camera in one of your pockets or any other easily-accessible area and enjoy the show.

Step 5: Old Jacket Trick

1. Wear an old jacket and carve a little seam in it (make sure it’s on the inside of the coat so nobody sees it).
2. The size of a camera will do it and tape it up or sew it up.
3. Go through the whole process with the guard and get in. During the concert, play, show, etc., rip open the seam and take out the camera.

Step 6: If Caught

1. Once inside, if you get caught, do not make a fuss or a scene. Your camera, film, memory card, and tickets may all be subject to confiscation.
2. Be apologetic and act ignorant.

Step 7: Hoodie and Cinch Bag

1. Take a cinch bag and a hoodie.
2. Wrap your camera into your hoodie and put the hoodie in your bag.
3. If the guard asks to see your bag, give it to them. Most guards don’t check in the hoodie.
4. Put in some cash, a phone, etc., to make it look inconspicuous.

Step 8: Finished

1. Enjoy the concert and take your photos discreetly.