The History of IlluminationThe history of illumination is a very long history that dates back before the discovery of fire to the projection of shadows on walls. Enlightenment like people has a past, a present and a future, this is where our story begins. Lighting is a tricky world to play in if you have too much you blind your subject and if you have too little you can barely see where you're going. The right amount of light needed changes with the room, the subject, the action, the setting, the overall atmosphere of the scene is governed by precise amounts of light or the lack thereof. Light is power, control the light and control the show. Before electricity and gas were used for everyday lighting, there was candlelight. Candles have been used for centuries to illuminate areas of a home or for the use I would like to inquire about, lighting feet in the theater. Foot lighting was used to illuminate the stage and especially the character acting on it. Even though the candles have a limited illumination range, this never stopped any performance, they simply used what they had and created an even more vivid scene than anyone else has been able to create to date. Even when the transition to gas lighting was being made, some of the large theaters still continued to use candlelight because, even though it lacked control, candles still made for a beautiful look on and off the stage. Current lighting is now an elaborate structure of rods and polls capable of directing the lights back and forth, rotating each, but they give off an artificial appearance even though they can mimic the temperature under the sun. Even though we now have a lot of control over the lighting we use in scenes, it now takes a great master to set up and maintain the correct lighting system... middle of the paper... to decrease how much their skin glows from natural oils, such as sweat. Another rule of thumb would be to take everything in small amounts at first until the subject looks the way you want because it's almost always harder to add and subtract errors in post-production, which is why it's better to take several shots of the same scene and the same subject, but obviously with different settings for each. The light is constantly changing because we are constantly in motion as the clouds pass and the storms rage, the light constantly changes and we slowly change with it. It is as much an art as drawing or painting. Because without light everything and everyone would be in darkness and therefore nothing would be seen. Work Cited http://www.lightingtechnologies.com http://www3.northern.edu/wild/LiteDes/ldhist.htmhttp://www .mts.net/~william5/history/hol.htm