The Features Of Illumination: The Fundamentals Of Lighting Design

Lighting design requires knowledge of certain elements of lighting

. Whether it is Vaxcel lighting, pendant lighting, spot lighting, or floor mount lighting the quality of light will be maintained by numerous variables. Creating the right mood for the right environment will mean mastering the use of such details. Some important variables are the shape of the light, the volume of light, the temperature of the light, the direction and the diffusion.

Shaping light is an integral aspect of lighting design. Enter into any high class eating establishment and there will be some obvious brightand dark areas and a balance around the dining room that allows for intimacy and functionality. Like a stage production with spot light, colored lights and other effects, shaping the light, allows the light designer to bring the eye toward, or away from aspects in a room. The light, can create a feeling of depth on a flat wall by making places of light and dark. The light can be placed in such a way as to highlight a beautiful vase or painting. Changing the direction of the lights can help to mask a work area by placing lights directed outward directly center. No one prefers to look in to brightness, and the iris adjusts leaving the area behind the light seem darker, like looking out a window in a well lit room makes the evening appear darker.

The amount of light is similar to the shaping of light. This envisioning an area and deciding the amount of which light is to be used to illuminate a room. Often people prefer a light-filled room by illuminating the entire room. The amount of light used determines the mood of a space. Hollywood can be looked to for advice regarding amount of light; dramatic lighting has high contrast ratios, and comedy lighting tends to be much flatter and even. A lighting designer worth their salt will design a space or house with varying ranges of contrast ratio, providing different moods for different rooms.

The temperature of a light whether it is heat or coolness allows the quality of its color. The color temperature creates it's own emotion. The sun would appear to be a warm color, but in comparison to tungsten lighting it is a cool blue. Tungsten lights are also designed to offer different light quality. Fluorescent lights may put forth a greenish hue within a space. The most well thought out designs can be ruined by the wrong choice of bulb.

Diffusion is part of the dynamic of shaping the light. Light will flow where it is pointed. Many bulbs and lamps focus the direction, others attempt to redirect the light. Diffusion is a method of scattering the direction of light, softening the shadows that it casts. A well designed restaurant may try to soften the light at a table to avoid the harsh unflattering shadows cast by bright lights overhead. This can be accomplished by pacing a stronger light directly towards the table that will bounce indirect diffused light onto the patrons sitting around the table, casting them in flattering light. Light, can impart a wide array of moods and textures in any given room.

by: Connor Sullivan

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