ᐅ Lighting Design for Ground Floor – Spotlights, Any Suggestions for Improvement?

tumaa schrieb:

My wife records cooking videos, and the lights are supposed to cast shadows when standing underneath, which the electrician said isn’t ideal.

In that case, you make them separately switchable so you still have light when you need to reach items in the tall cabinets.

Way too much.

tumaa schrieb:

My PC corner will be in that corner

In that case, a task light should be sufficient.

tumaa schrieb:

Can the outlets be used for that, or do they need to look different?

You will have one hole in the ceiling for each spotlight.

Recessed ceiling spotlights are not suitable as task lighting. They are either used as accent lighting and/or to provide continuous general illumination when you need the room brightly lit for searching, working on something, or other reasons.
In a hallway, for example, 3 or 4 LED spotlights of 3 to 4 watts each are sufficient.

ypg schrieb:

Then a work light should be enough.

So, a table-mounted light or what exactly is meant by a work light?

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- Could you cancel the 4 lights that were intended for the PC area and instead plan them between the wall cabinets and the island?

- Cancel the 4 above the dining table and plan pendant lights there instead?

You will have to work with softboxes anyway when recording.

Thanks

I just realized... if recordings are ever planned at the dining table, for example, for an FAQ video or similar, the pendant lights might possibly be distracting in the video?

It's interesting that your wife produces cooking-related videos. For this purpose, I consider purpose-designed video lighting ideal. It can be set up and taken down as needed, and the lighting is always consistent. Using ceiling lighting for filming is, in my opinion, a less effective solution. Additionally, especially with food, there are light sources with color temperatures that make the food appear particularly natural and fresh—not just a high CRI (Color Rendering Index) alone. However, such specialized lighting is usually not very homely.

You can find information about this from professional lighting manufacturers, such as Ansorg.

When choosing from the many ceiling lights, be sure to select glare-free bulbs, because otherwise, you may not want to turn the light on.

hampshire schrieb:

It’s interesting that your wife produces cooking videos. For this purpose, I consider purpose-built video lighting to be ideal. It can be set up and taken down easily, and the lighting will always be appropriate. Designing the ceiling lighting specifically for filming is, in my opinion, the less effective solution. Especially when it comes to food, certain light sources produce color temperatures that make the food look especially natural and fresh – simply having a high CRI is not enough. Such specialized lighting, however, isn’t very cozy.

You can find information about this from professional lighting manufacturers like Ansorg, for example.

When choosing multiple ceiling lights, be sure to select glare-free bulbs; otherwise, you won’t enjoy turning the lights on.

At first, we wanted to do that, but then we read that it doesn’t help—that ceiling lights are rather counterproductive for filming; for recordings, softboxes are always used.

I might still plan a row of lights behind the island.