I think I'll give this location a miss... at DVinfo.net

Colin McDonald · February 9th, 2011, 01:23 AM

A BBC news item about sulphur (that's sulfur to some of you folks!) miners.
BBC News - Sulphur mining in an active volcano

From about 8 paragraphs into the story:
"During filming, the BBC crew was enveloped in a toxic cloud 40 times the UK's safe breathing level (no limits exist for the miners). Corrosive air-borne particles ate into the cameras, which promptly broke down."

Strike this one off the list for exotic weddings.

Wayne Reimer · February 9th, 2011, 07:04 AM

.I bet it did destroy their gear! I can't imagine working in that sort of condition, day after day. It always amazes me when we travel to third world nations especially to see what people will do just to survive.

We were in Honduras and Nicaragua last fall, and I shot some footage at a palm oil processing facility. One of the jobs there is to tend enormous mountains of decomposing palm fronds and husks, which they sell for fertilizer. Constatnly smoldering, rotting piles of it 40 feet high and a thousand feet long, and the workers stand on top of it in 40+C heat, raking...all for $6.00 US a day, and they are happy they have work.

Heiko Saele · February 9th, 2011, 08:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Colin McDonald

Strike this one off the list for exotic weddings.

Some people consider it a good place to take their steadicam for some off-road running:

Check out the shots at 6:00 and following.
YouTube - Working Man's Death - Ghosts

That cameraman is definitely crazy. But crazy good, also :)
I'd like to know what steadicam he was flying there. I guess something small and light, also considering that you can probably throw away the camera after the shoot...

Andy Wilkinson · February 9th, 2011, 08:43 AM

Here's another location I'd not want to be shooting in. The guy gets blown off his feet by a roadside bomb as he's filming - takes a very hard landing - and then like a true pro he gets up and just carries on filming (amazingly the camera kept working).

Think I'll stick to corporate film production...

Video: Moment car bomb explodes in Iraq caught on camera - Telegraph

Robert Turchick · February 9th, 2011, 09:56 AM

So...I guess I really had no right to complain about shooting in a parking lot when it was 115 deg outside! Or at a construction site when it was 20 deg!

Jim Andrada · February 9th, 2011, 09:42 PM

Or in Tucson last week when it was around 15???

February 9th, 2011, 01:23 AM	#1
Colin McDonald Trustee Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 1,546	I think I'll give this location a miss... A BBC news item about sulphur (that's sulfur to some of you folks!) miners. BBC News - Sulphur mining in an active volcano From about 8 paragraphs into the story: "During filming, the BBC crew was enveloped in a toxic cloud 40 times the UK's safe breathing level (no limits exist for the miners). Corrosive air-borne particles ate into the cameras, which promptly broke down." Strike this one off the list for exotic weddings.

February 9th, 2011, 08:43 AM	#4
Andy Wilkinson Inner Circle Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Cambridge UK Posts: 2,853	Here's another location I'd not want to be shooting in. The guy gets blown off his feet by a roadside bomb as he's filming - takes a very hard landing - and then like a true pro he gets up and just carries on filming (amazingly the camera kept working). Think I'll stick to corporate film production... Video: Moment car bomb explodes in Iraq caught on camera - Telegraph __________________ Andy K Wilkinson - https://www.shootingimage.co.uk Cambridge (UK) Corporate Video Production

February 9th, 2011, 09:56 AM	#5
Robert Turchick Trustee Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Mesa, AZ Posts: 1,389	So...I guess I really had no right to complain about shooting in a parking lot when it was 115 deg outside! Or at a construction site when it was 20 deg! __________________ The older I get, the better I was!

February 9th, 2011, 07:04 AM	#2
Wayne Reimer Major Player Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Regina, Saskatchewan Canada Posts: 255	.I bet it did destroy their gear! I can't imagine working in that sort of condition, day after day. It always amazes me when we travel to third world nations especially to see what people will do just to survive. We were in Honduras and Nicaragua last fall, and I shot some footage at a palm oil processing facility. One of the jobs there is to tend enormous mountains of decomposing palm fronds and husks, which they sell for fertilizer. Constatnly smoldering, rotting piles of it 40 feet high and a thousand feet long, and the workers stand on top of it in 40+C heat, raking...all for $6.00 US a day, and they are happy they have work.

February 9th, 2011, 09:42 PM	#6
Jim Andrada Inner Circle Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tucson AZ Posts: 2,211	Or in Tucson last week when it was around 15???