landscape lighting design

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    Knowledge Landscape Lighting: What Is Uplighting?

    Uplighting is a dramatic way of accenting trees, shrubs, and architectural features like a gazebo, arbor or wall sculpture. This concept brings life to interesting hardscape and softscape elements that rise up from the ground. This landscape lighting technique is most often used to highlight the...
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    Knowledge Landscape Lighting: What Is Cross Lighting?

    Cross lighting is a landscape lighting technique that involves using two beams of light to fully enhance an object. This technique is usually used to accentuate larger trees or other tall items. Cross lighting utilizes two or more light fixtures which are mounted above or below the object...
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    Knowledge Landscape Lighting: What Is Mirror Lighting?

    Mirror lighting is a landscape lighting technique that involves illuminating a background scene to reflect it into a nearby body of water. The technique takes advantage of the reflective surface of water features to create visual interest. Placing a light fixture such as a well light between...
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    Knowledge Landscape Lighting: What Is Shadowing?

    Shadowing is a landscape lighting technique that plays with light and darkness to intentionally create an intriguing shadow on a vertical surface. The technique involves placing a light fixture, often a spot light, in front of an object, such as a tree, plant, or statue. The decorative shadow...
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    Knowledge Landscape Lighting: What Is Silhouetting?

    Silhouetting is used to dramatize the shape of a plant, tree, structure, or other object so it stands out before a wall, fence, or other surface. This technique accents the silhouette of the object, but not the color or texture. Silhouetting is sometimes called backlighting. Placing a spotlight...
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    Knowledge Landscape Lighting: What Is Moonlighting?

    Moonlighting is a landscape lighting technique designed to replicate the effect of moonlight shining through the branches and filtering through the foliage of a tree. This technique creates soft and subtle ambient illumination that casts shadows and accentuates what is under the tree (paths...
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    Knowledge Outdoor Accent Lighting: Wall Washing vs. Grazing

    Wall washing is a landscape lighting technique for evenly illuminating a wall or large vertical surface. The broad, uniform illumination hides imperfections and flattens the appearance of the illuminated area. Wall washing is accomplished by placing light fixtures with a setback that is distant...
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