Mark T. Karinja

With those lights, I would get yourself 300 Amps. That leaves some room for more lights and whatever else you need to pull amperage. If a generator is baffled, that means it was designed in a way to be very quiet (in comparison to a non-baffled gennie) - not saying it doesn't make noise, but it often works fine with sync sound without having to go too far away in most situations. The 300-500 amp gennies will most commonly found as a towe gennie which can attach to a heavy s.u.v. with a hitch. The word expensive is relative.. but keep in mind that these are normally rented for a reason.. not to mention, they can way a ton or more. (Hopefully that answers the rest for you)

Do you have solarspots? (As in multiple 5k's?) A 5k takes 50 paper amps (roughly 41.5 technicallly). So if you had 1, maybe an 80 amp gennie would do you well with room for your other lights (depending on what they are). But if you have multiple 5k's, you may be moving up into 200-500 amp gennies in which case you can get a baffled towe gennie (500 amps is the maximum to still run on unleaded gasoline) - and keep in mind that you are talking about expensive generators that are usually rented. You are also then talking about single/3 phase banded, something like a 300 amp box, snake bites, lunch boxes, 100/60 amp bates cable, and everything you need for distro. Hopefully that helped you some.

Lots of DI. Possible use of filters. Maybe use of a push to add contrast.... But the coloring and contrast mostly likely added in DI. I also noiced what seemed like slight, slight exposure rackings to create a semi light strobing effect to the scene (which could have been done in post as well).

Caucasian skin tone is one stop above middle gray (18%). Therefore, if you read your subject (assumingly a Caucasian subject) with a spot meter at 2.8, 18% gray is 2.0. T. 16 would then be 6 stops hotter then middle gray (18%). When explaining spot meter exposures, your reading is based only on reflectiveness (meaning that the cyc being white as well as any other colors in your scene are already accounted for and their reflective abilities) and may be most easily understood in terms of middle gray (stops under or over 18%).

I have read and heard about a lighting style that uses pars, angled down and then bounced up to light a subject; giving not an ugly, harsh underlight but rather a very beautiful key. I am beginning to start tests on this lighting styles with various types of pars, bulbs, bounce, and distances/angles used to create this effect, but I was wondering if anyone had any experience or thoughts on this style and if they would like to add their input. Thanks.