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What is the best light to illuminate these panels?

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    Fellow landscape lighting enthusiast here. Because "best" is in the eye of the beholder, I can only tell you how I might light those panels. First, your choice of brightness will depend on how you want the panels to be viewed. If the panels are some distance away from your house or if there's a lot of ambient light, that's a situation where you might want to go a bit brighter (perhaps 3w minimum). If you have a nice dark sky overhead or the panels are located close to the point from which you'll be viewing them, maybe go a bit lower (2w, perhaps). In terms of beam spread, you could illuminate multiple panels (A) with flood light fixtures or wider beam spread spot light fixtures. You could uplight or downlight individual panels (B and C). Depending on the type of light fixture you choose, you can either highlight individual panels or fully illuminate them. You can even tweak the light output from certain fixtures to highlight the fixtures with a certain shape (D). Finally, you could place some weatherproof white or translucent panels or boards immediately behind the metal panels and then illuminate the panels from behind. If you're overwhelmed by fixture options (as a lot of people are initially), it might be helpful to first decide on the effect you want to create. Perhaps look online to see examples of how others have illuminated these types of panels either from the front or when they're placed in front of a wall or other light colored background. HTH


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