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Design Low Voltage Lighting for your BackyardWhen considering the design for low voltage lighting in your backyard, it's good to know the basic lighting techniques. Up Lighting: Is the most
common technique used for accenting focal points and it creating
shadows on walls.
Path Lighting: It's best to
use Path lights for walk ways, gardens and seasonal plants. Place the
fixtures back away from drives and walks so that they are close enough
to supply adequate light but not to close to be a hazard.
Cross Lighting: This
technique brings an even light to the object which allows optimum
viewing for many angles.
Down Lighting: By placing the lighting fixtures in
trees and on structures you can simulate natural down lighting such as
the Sun, Moon and Stars.
Back lighting: Is usually a softer form of landscape
lighting that creates depth and visual interest.
Silhouette Lighting:Is a form
of back lighting, but the light is placed directly behind the object
with the wall or fence illuminated to create a silhouette of the
object.
Shadowing: There are two types of shadowing.
Positive shadows create visual interest and a little bit of mystery.
Negative in that the shadow will hide a obstacle from view.
Wall Washing: This technique is used in accenting
architecture and grazing of surfaces to create more visual interest and
could provide area lighting through reflection.
Focal Point Lighting: By using a more dramatic light
you create a focal point or points on certain objects
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