Have you ever been too hot to take pictures?

heat and humidity just saps away my enthusiasm mostly.. well of course depending on what type of shoot i'm doing

My wife and I did a 4 mile hike on Saturday that kicked our butts. The temp was about 90 F. but we were at 9000+ feet and the trail was like a roller coaster. I was so worn out that I couldn't get the energy up to photograph a very neat horned lizard and snake that we passed on the trail.

I've been carrying the 5D w/24-70 for my hikes but I left it behind and took my Olympus C5050, glad I did.

On Sunday we did the much easier 2 mile River Walk in Zion N.P., I did take the 5D and it was fine on my new POTN strap. Temp was about 97 F when we finished.

Win

I was shooting a blues festival on Saturday, and it was about 105. That, coupled with the humidity, made it pretty bad, and I definitely didn't want to be out in the sun shooting. That's the gig, though.

The nice thing about the day was that, between two of the bands, the skies opened up and it poured. I just put my gear in the van and enjoyed a walk in the rain. After the rain stopped, it was a good 15 degrees cooler than it had been...

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun!

The heat does have its advantages - I put water out for the birds this morning and within minutes there were 3 goldfinch drinking there.

Mario,
Just out of curiosity, what in the Sacramento valley is interesting enough to photograph in the mid-afternoon hot summer sun?

Just got home from UT & WY and it was hot and my husband insisted on leaving the equipment in the van while we visited and ate. I couldn't do it. I took all the bags out and set them under the tables at restaurants and kept it all with me. We did carry a lot of stuff during our day at Yellowstone, and it rained buckets. Cooled everything off, so I was glad. But with 100 degrees and humidity that has caused extreme conditions here in the DC area, I take the small bag with 20D and 17-40L. That's it. I am shooting family portraits outdoors for a friend this week. Planning on wearing white and drinking ice water the whole time. I'm considering bringing a sun-shade umbrella with me.

I can handle the high temps if it is dry heat, but here in the South it is HUMID!!!

I was the other day but had to keep shooting anyways. I was doing a wedding on Saturday where it was +36C to begin with, then with the humidity that was bumped up to +45C (113F) so needless to say i was HOT! The ceremony was in a church with no AC, and all the formals were outside. When I got home that night I weighed myself just for fun to see how much weight I had sweat off, and much to make heat stroke induced enjoyment, I had lost 4lbs.

I was shooting in Utah over last weekend at Miller Motorsports Park... 103. I was okay, but my 300 was actually getting very warm to hot to the touch. Made shooting a little tough at times.

Mad dogs and Englishmen ... travel on public transport in London in the summer. Today the London Evening Standard reported that they had measured 52C (that's 126F for you Americans) on London buses and 47C (117F) on the London Underground.

I've got a big heavy tripod on loan from a friend and I was planning to go shoot some panoramas of London. Not sure I will though...

It is so hot here that the roads are literally melting!!

Steven, really good question. I spent most of those hours trying to figure out this myself. Some of the Press organizations I work for, receive large support from Development Companies (Construction, tract homes, such). In some areas, they are projecting to build large amounts of these homes.

So I am sent out to photograph recently purchased lands, housing development progress, and other rather boring items.

The first day, I was covering the opening of a Hotel, in very hot temperature. Most people found solace (no pun intended) in a small tent, but I spent most of the time on the sidelines, photographing the 'personalities' attending the event, and the event itself. Though it wasn't very fun, I did make a great amount of contacts and PR, which made the whole thing bearable.

Other than that, not even the cows are out there during the day.

Jeez! I had no idea you shutter bugs were such wusses! Here in Las Vegas hot is just part of the deal (in more ways than one! ). Right now we've been at around 112 in the shade during the mid-afternoon, cooling to 100 something in the evenings. In fact, I've been shopping for one of those heat shimmer filters to calm down my outdoor wedding images.

Yeah...lately. Here it's been around 100 with 60+% humidity! UGH! But I am reminded of a time in college when I went to the desert to take some shots. I was sweating SOOOOO much that my eyepiece was covered in sweat and I couldn't see to take pictures. I ended up on the verge of heat stroke that day...I definately learned my lesson....bring water. LOL But right now...I just can't go outside hardly at all. My feet swell up too much, so I'll have to wait till this kid comes out of me to start back up again with outdoor shots.

If the heat is dry, I'm not bothered, but when the humidity is way up, I'll take indoor shots.
Last year on vacation I had a lot of trouble going from air-conditioned buildings to outdoors without my camera fogging over. I lost a lot of pictures because of that.