The sight was a bank parking lot. The mission was to observe a paving operation where a small contractor took the existing top portion off and reapplied a new one.
To the right of the photo are head engineer and a trainee she has assigned me while I train to be his boss. Quite an odd thought really, but the young lad was hired as an inspector trainee so he is my first assignment to train while I'm a manager in training. They are standing on the critically flat concrete areas I mentioned in my previous post.
So head engineer boss lady is on site "willing to assist" which in plain english means "willing to critique every pebble, every shade of gray, everything in some attempt to make sure the designers ridiculous theories are correctly applied by ordinary construction workers who like me had not slept all day and were about to embark on a 16 hour shift.
The boss lady scheduled a meeting for the trainee and I to meet another theorist prior to starting work. Turns out this aderall using rookie wanna be guy has her convinced he has his act together. My initial impression was he had his head up his @$$, and after spending a few hours with the guy my view did not change, or at least in a positive way. My trainee was impressed with his wiz-bang sales pitch as showed the milenial lots of computer short cuts and my trainee just loves taking short cuts in life. Free free free… yup you can lose 20 pounds while sitting in an easy chair eating ice cream with this short cut. My engineer boss lady was impressed with the boston red sox logo on wiz bang dudes wedding ring. He clearly noticed I was not one to quickly plunk down my rent money for his snake oil salesman charms.
The tone for the evening was set and clearly my fun with flashlights was going to be thwarted by stupidity. I had my SOG dark energy light clipped to my trouser pocket as a primary. Being a DE-05 is crisp white beam'd thrower naturally wiz-bang guy asks "is that an atomic light?" while the trainee asks "does it strobe?" Ugh!! So what happens when a snake oil salesman realizes you aint buying? He becomes your fan as he tries to figure out why you aint falling for his bs. So I had a follower and the trainee was more proud of me being his boss than ever. So while trying to discern what needs to be checked over at work and how to photograph them in a dark-ish scenario where long shutter speeds cause nearby artificial lights and long shutter speeds to create blurry, harsh photos unless I can think of ideas to reduce it.
An example of a photo to delete.
With the distractions by my "fan club", numerous photos were turning out this way as my less than fresh brain was still trying to figure out which flashlight was correct for a given photo. My Streamlight head lamp would not provide enough light on flood but too much on spot. The Bones was too bright, the G2x Pro was either too low or too high. Mag's were in my truck, and the fan club was continuing to pluck my nerves. But at least the nit-picking boss had left.
I was carrying a vaper in my shirt pocket but decided to have a real cigarette to get away from the fan club, jot down a few thoughts and clear my mind of clutter so I could decide which flashlight would be best for those dam pictures.
My PKDL clipped to a ball cap.
While setting in my truck having a cigarette and jotting down notes for writing a synopsis of the project from start to finish my little edc was very handy on low. Viola! It occured to me my PR-1 with a Deer Park brand water bottle cap over the end will be bright enough to compete with other lights and be close enough to quicken shutter speeds.
Heck yeah! PR-1 with difuser did the trick.
Next time I'll carry my Streamlight ProTac HL4. Nice, floody beam up to 2200 lumens.
So by this time it's 2:30am, aderall has worn off in the wiz-bang dude so he's left to find a hotel, my trainee is taking a nap and I'm trying out a new vape device sent to me by Vaporesso. A large cup of McCoffee has my energy level in decent shape and my head aint swimming anymore. At this point I just wanted the folks to finish paving so I could go home. Home is 2 hours away so by 5am I was thinking the 2 hour drive was a bad idea. By 8 I was zonked at a Holiday Inn Express for a couple of hours.
I ended up getting quite a few keeper photos on my point n shoot work cam and at some point when they are downloaded to a computer a few wll be posted in this thread showing which light provided the right beam and intensity for the given situation. If my foggy brain can recall the Streamlight double clutch, the SOG and PR-1 were the most used. But after working 4-16 hour days in a row then a 26 hour day my brain is not really all that dependable today. This assignment cannot be over soon enough to suit me.