Hey, everybody!
I'm gonna be renting one of these Luminys lights to simulate a lightning flash in a rainstorm and I've got a couple questions.
First, how would I expose for this? I'm using the lightning flash to illuminate a character. I'll be shooting on 16mm film. We'll be working with supplemented moonlight, but it's the middle of a thunderstorm, so it will be relatively dark in the shot before the lightning. I'm only going to have the light for the day, maybe the day before, so metering in advance doesn't give me a lot of time to problem solve.
Second, I've never worked with one of these lights before and I was hoping to get input from someone who's used them. I need to light up a character, outside at night with heavy simulated rain. The character is 100ish feet from camera on a 50mm, possibly 35mm. Would the 40K parabolic do the trick for that? The 200K seems like overkill.
Thanks in advance for the answers to my questions.