Landscape Lighting Outdoor Lighting Techniques

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Various lighting techniques are used to persuade trees, bushes, gardens, stones, brickwork and structures to spring to life at night, while maintaining a safe outdoor environment for your family and visitors.

These enrichments are achieved through various lighting techniques such as up-lighting, down-lighting, moon-lighting cross-lighting, grazing, shadowing, path-lighting and back-lighting.

Lighthouse Landscape Lighting Techniques

Each technique requires attention to placement, brightness, beam width, angle, direction, and spacing to achieve the desired effects. The variety of fixtures and products offered by Lighthouse Landscape Lighting provides a versatile system for stand-alone or combination lighting situations.

Lighthouse Landscape Lighting Techniques

• Architectural lighting and the grazing techniques are used to accentuate texture variations and architectural features common to stone and brick work. Architectural lighting also applies to statues, fountains or gateways.

• Path lighting in combination with adjacent landscape lighting provides safety and security by illuminating driveways and walkways.

• Moon lighting and down-lighting are accomplished by mounted fixtures in tree branches to create a moonlight effect. This method encourages cast shadows to produce a variety of patterns on the lawn and other ground surfaces.

• Shadowing and backlighting incorporate background light to silhouette landscape and structural features.

• Cross lighting integrates intersecting light beams at deliberate angles to produce depth of field from the blend of light and shadows.

• Up-lighting involves casting light upward to highlight the texture, size, color and features at night.

• Zoning the lighting systems can be used to provide independent control for various lighting scenarios.