Cool! TNX fer the lighting description.
May I correct one thing?
"I used 16 4800 watt-per-second strobe power packs and about 24 flash heads, each putting out 2400 watt-seconds. A watt second is the amount of power that would be used if the flash duration was 1 second."
A watt-second (synonym: Joule) is a unit of energy, not power. Use up that energy in a short time, it's a lot of power. Use up that same amount of energy in a long time, it's low(er) power. The capacitors store the energy, which is measured in watt-seconds. A typical studio lamp will dump that energy through the flash tube in anywhere from 10-ish to 50-ish milliseconds, depending on how heavily "loaded" the flash lamp is. Yes. That is a lot of power. For one 2400 Watt-second (Joules) lamp, assuming a long flash of 50 milliseconds, that's about 64 Horsepower per lamp, if my arithmetic is correct. With 24 lamps fired, that's a total of 1500 HorsePower worth of lighting on that car --more than the car's engine would put out! (But for only a short time.)
I'd just remove those sentences.
People are amazed at the power developed when energy is expended in a short time. For instance, by my calculations, a .22 rifle develops about 90 HP each shot....
...Terry, yer ramblin' again...
Largest format I ever used was 9 x 12 cm, almost as big as the American standard 4" x 5". I loved that format --a Zeiss Ikon. If I developed Panatomic sheets in diluted Microdol, I swear you could enlarge them to football-field size and not see one little grain. (I exaggerate for the sake of a good story.... but not much.)
There was no synchronization on that camera, so it was all available-light and reflectors and a grey card and a light meter.
I'll say it again: Beautiful picture-makin' work on your part --both pics.
Terry, 230RN