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Forum: Photographic Technique
08-11-2011, 12:10 PM
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One homily: If it's too cold, you can always put on something more. If it's too hot, you can only take off just so much. OTOH I'm more comfortable naked in front of a swamp cooler than swaddled in quilts before a fuel-oil stove. I've done both. But I'd still rather be at elevation; 7000ft / 2100m in Guatemala is just about right. Hola, Solola! Next tango in Chichicastenango!
ObTopic: A time-lapse of a rising thermometer with an outdoors scene beyond.
Which reminds me of the story of an enterprising desert bartender. The bar was a cozy dark musty old adobe room, closed-in but for a little inset window with a thermometer showing the outside temperature. Whenever someone noticed that the temp was up a few degrees, another round of cold beer was bought. What the customers DIDN'T notice was the candle the barkeep kept in a closed nook beneath the thermometer...
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Forum: Photographic Technique
08-11-2011, 11:17 AM
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And I've seen the opposite Yellowknife version of this. DOWN TO 40 BELOW, TIME FOR LONG SLEEVES.
But IMHO Texans are wussies. I lived a couple years at around 2000ft / 600m elevation in 29 Stumps, California. (Used to be 29 Palms but tourists and Marines knocked the trees over, so it's just stumps now.) Midday summer shade temp (when shade could be found) was typically around 120f. Air temp would be more like 150f. I had a small flat-roof cinderblock house with no AC of any sort. It got hot and stayed hot. Daytime, I dozed and hallucinated with a big fan blowing on me. Nightime, I slept on the roof. A roadrunner crossed the roof (and me and my sleeping bag) daily just before dawn -- my organic alarm clock.
My yard was a cactus garden. Some opuntias only bloom in mid-July. At noon, the irises of my eyes would be constricted maximally, and the colors of those blooms seemed fluorescent. Try it sometime.
So if I could take that without complaining, why are all these Texans so knickers-twisted? Just wussies...
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Forum: Photographic Technique
08-10-2011, 06:28 PM
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What is your camera? In my K20D manual, I look up INTERVAL SHOOTING for instructions.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
08-09-2011, 02:19 PM
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Another idea: Time-lapses from before dawn to after dusk, showing the bleak changes in a day.
Oh yeah, you probably don't *really* want to be out shooting at midday, except from inside an air-conditioned car. When I lived in 29 Palms CA, I did my summer shooting with the sun just over the horizon. Except to shoot cactus blossoms at midday -- they're just about fluorescent when the air temp is over 125f.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
08-09-2011, 02:13 PM
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Where to start? I would start by leaving the area. But I expect that Taos is already being overrun by Texans.
Alas, that doesn't address your desire. I'd use a telephoto at midday to capture the heat waves. And an ultrawide to show dried-up watercourses and dried-out animals in context. Stereotypical images, yes -- but just look at collections of drought photos and you'll get some ideas. Stay cool!
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