 Up Lighting for Directional Viewing Lights are located in a direct line between the viewer and the lighted object. This will ensure that glare is reduced or eliminated. 
Up Lighting for All-Around Viewing When an object will be viewed from multiple angles, in-ground fixtures are ideally used to reduce glare. The lights are strategically located around the object to avoid glare from fixtures aimed toward viewers from opposing approaches. 
 Down Lighting Fixtures are mounted to building surfaces, eaves, facades or in trees, above eye level. This provides efficient lighting for recreation, security and safety. Overlapping the light beams can soften shadows and create best uniformity. A type of down lighting called Façade Lighting can add character, depth and dimension to the landscape when lit correctly. Textured house surfaces, such as brick, weathered, wood, split shakes and barn siding are illuminated by grazing them with light. Light fixtures are mounted just inches away from the surface and are aimed at close angels. This can produce intense, highly provocative effects. By contrast, moving fixtures away from the surface will create scallop-shaped areas of light. If you use it appropriately, scalloping can excite visual interest and add perspective to the overall project. 
 Path / Spread Lighting Fully shielded path lights produce the best visibility by eliminating glare that could cause difficulty in recognizing obstacles or steps. Partially shielded path lights create a useful effect, when surrounded by taller plants, filtering the light on the pathway, reducing glare, and lighting the adjacent landscape. 
Shadow Lighting / Silhouette Lighting surfaces from behind the landscaping produces a bright background to silhouette foreground objects. Lighting a surface from behind will emphasize the shape and distinctive character of a particular object. The light fixtures are located to provide lowest aiming angle. Multiple fixtures are used to eliminate shadows. 
 Moonlighting Light fixtures are located high in a tree and the light appears to cascade down, filtering through limbs, branches and leaves to create soft and subtle tones that resemble moonlight. 
 Up Lighting for Directional Viewing Spot / Accent Lighting Highlighting statues, exotic shrubbery and a specimen plant will often add a dramatic and interesting tone to the landscape. Fixtures are carefully placed to produce minimal background shadowing and to avoid spill light.
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