take a stand for cinema populist underdog and vision of light reinstates the basic element of importance in film in an age where the artistic merit be credit the director and the actor . or maybe it merely tell an audience what every filmmaker know so well while that the art of film would be nothing without light and the craft of capture and animate it . since the origin of film making and cinematography have maintain it reputation of be a craft and long after the role of the director be give creative control . and with such a responsibility in management of physical and optical parameter and the creative expression of the director of photography be purely base on experiment through immense control . from charles lang be instruct to put his shadow wherever he want and but not on the actor face to david lynch and frederick elmes discuss how dark be dark and the art of cinematography be just as much about be an illusionist a just a mediator between production and aspection . in commentary to his sketching of thing in the dark to the point of monochromism and john alton sum up the spirit of cinematography in remind u that it be not as much about the light you turn on a the one you do not .