He then joined the board members to light two four foot candles.

Yet most parking lots have lighting of 5 to 10 foot candles.

A light meter held by hand within a half inch of the painting measures the foot candles of light, which are generally kept at 10.

His study on Illumination suggested that brighter lights in the work area than the surrounding causes eye fatigue; instead, 25 foot candles would have been sufficient.

But really good bright artificial light is only twenty-five foot candles and a "well-lighted" room is seldom that bright.

Robert Lombardi, the director of architecture, says the alternative to fluorescents, a mercury sodium mixture, produces the same number of foot candles.

These plants are shy to flower in cultivation unless they receive very bright light of around 2000 foot candles and given a dry rest for about 6 weeks in the fall.

Debra Mack and Juana Sanchez, working in the atrium garden, learned to measure light in foot candles and determine how many bags of soil fit in each planter.

A study by the California Energy Commission found that most respondents wanted outdoor lighting to be only as bright as the full moonlight, which is about one one-hundredth of a foot candle (the unit used to measure light intensity).

By the 1980s, Altman had become the dominant stage lighting company in America and in 1988 Charlie and Alice were awarded the Lifetime Achievement Foot Candle Award for their extraordinary achievement in stage lighting.

In 1988, Charles and Alice Altman won the Lifetime Achievement Foot Candle Award for their achievement in stage lighting and in 1993 Charles Altman won the Wally Russell award for "outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry".

A foot-candle (sometimes foot candle; abbreviated fc, lm/ft, or sometimes ft-c) is a non-SI unit of illuminance or light intensity widely used in the United States in photography, film, television, conservation lighting, the lighting industry, construction-related engineering and in building codes.