Have you ever been too hot to take pictures?

Today is my only day off this week and it is 110. Guess I will clean my acoustic guitar and take some pics of it indoors. I went outside for about 5 minutes and had enough. Sux.

96 here in Denver for the past week! I usually wear all black pants and long sleeve shirts to my shoots....but I may have to change my attire if this keeps up

Ah you bunch of Nancy boys, letting a little hot keep you from shooting.

A couple of years ago the Brickyard 400 was run when it was in the upper 90's with the humidity somewhere in the 70-80% range. All of us photographers were out there doing our jobs. The infield hospital was treating quite a few people for heat exhuastion. I would drench myself on yellow lights with an ice cold wet towel from my cooler. Within 10 minutes I would be bone dry the moisture was evaporating so quickly.

In 2003 at Kentucky Speedway I was in turn 3 all alone. A guy in a golf cart from the track kept coming by about every half an hour to check on me, just to make sure I wasn't cooking out there. I don't remember exactly how hot it was but, it was well over 90 and humid as a steam room.

Last year it was so dad blamed hot at a girls softball tourney, my camera quit focusing. Zip, zip, zip, searching for a correct focus and not able to find it. I tried 3 different lenses and same with all of them. Later that night everything worked just fine. I chalked it up to camera heat fatigue.

This past Saturday I went to the Indiana High School Football All-Star game. It was in the lower 90's but not real humid. Down on the field, which was astro turf, it had to be over 100 easily. Standing in the sun getting baked from above and heat generating off the ground made it even worse but, I didn't feel like giving up until I had the shots I needed for the assignment. I did wonder how the players could stand it with the pads and all. Now those guys had to be sweating off a ton of weight just standing around.


All kidding aside, I wouldn't have been out there at any of those events if I didn't have to be. The key is to drink plenty of water, and not exerting ones self needlessly.

I am holed up in my house with the A/C running, because it's HOT outside. The outside temp reading in my truck showed 110F most of the way home from work today.

110F? Heck you should be good for at least an hour, maybe an hour and a half.

I know. Folks in Phoenix or Iraq think that's cool and comfortable.

It topped 76 F here today, unbelievably hot at this altitude.

This last week I spend about 6-7 hs mid afternoon (two day process) in hundred degree weather (Sacto Valley), slacks shirt and tie, photo vest, 5 lenses and 2 cameras. I did pretty good, more blurry photos than I had expected, and I still cannot find my way to the bathroom (savvy).

But you do what you have to do. I personally like that. Get dirty, get hot or sunburned, it is a way to proudly show the macho-ness/idiocy all at once.

I do wonder though, as someone mentioned above, how hot is too hot for your black camera to operate in this sunny weather. My Canon + Bigma were getting all sorts of hot this last Wednesday. Had no real problems, but I kept wondering.

I spent the entire afternoon on Saturday, when it was 96 degrees outdoors, in a butterfly conservatory which is essentially just a big greenhouse. God, it was hot!

I've been too hot, been too lazy(especially that one), too not in the mood, too busy, etc. etc. I am a slacker!!

When I was in Turks and Caicos it was over 120F on the beach.... I've never seen a lens fog up in shade before.

The dewpoint that day was 29C...

When I was young and in my prime... 30 years ago I worked in a Bandag shop retreading truck tires. During the summer it would get up to 90 or so & we'd keep right on going. The chambers we put the tires into to cure th new rubber was set at 214 degrees. Man, I could really sweat then. Now I think about sweating & I do. Doesn't matter if it's 30 or 90. Of course, 2 medications that I take for my fibro list excessive sweating as their # side effect. You should have seen me in Yosemite a few weeks ago...no, never mind. I was changing shirts 3 or 4 times a
day. But I do like my weather a little warm - you know, 65 to 75 degrees and low humidity

My daughter has been bugging me to go to a local consevation area, well it was 97 degrees and the humidity must have been neer 100%. Walked into the woods and walked right out after being swarmed by mosquitos and sweating to death.
Alls I got was about 5 pics(just tooooo damn hot)


Dan

Doesn't get too hot here - every day about 32 C, so about 90 F. But everyday is in excess of 90% humidity. So what's worse? Oh the humidity

Yeah, humidity kills.

I've been to the places the OP mentioned before and the worst part is that the humidity seems to be in a class of its own. Stuff just doesn't evaporate or so it seems. That's the worst part! At least if it evaporates you can cool off with a little water, but when it doesn't, you're in trouble.

I think their 'absolute humidity' must be something like 150% compared to 50% in temperate climates. Note I said absolute, not relative. Relative is just relative, that's all. I'm pretty darn sure their 'relative' 90% represents a heckofalotmore water in the air.

Once I got off the plane, walked down the airbridge to the terminal. Halfway through the airbridge, the air changes to 'local' air, and you can tell the change - I felt like a fish sucking down WATER into my lungs and it took a few breaths to get things sorted out!