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The gallery

Photographed on actual Albuquerque houses, after dark and in flat midday sun. No renders, no stock photography of somebody else's roofline in a different state.

One house, one system, two evenings

Same roofline, same camera position, same install. The only thing that changed between these two photographs is the scene somebody picked on their phone. This is what people mean when they ask whether it “really” changes color.

Everyday warm white Albuquerque home with permanent lighting running the roofline, gables and eaves in everyday warm white
The setting most of these systems sit on for the majority of the year. It reads as architectural lighting rather than as decoration.
A color scene The same Albuquerque home from the same angle with the permanent lighting switched to a pink and orange scene
The same fixtures a few taps later. Nobody went up a ladder and nothing was swapped out. The rest of the calendar.

What to look for in these

Photographs of lighting are easy to flatter. Here is what we would look at if we were the ones judging somebody else’s gallery.

  • Is the line straight? Follow a roofline across the whole photo. A fixed channel holds a dead-straight line; a cable clipped to fascia does not, and it shows worse every year. How the mounting works.
  • Does the light land on the wall, or in your eyes? A properly aimed run washes down the elevation. If the photo is mostly bright dots and a dark wall, the aiming is wrong.
  • Is the spacing even, including around corners? Corners are where a rushed job gives itself away.
  • Does the warm white look warm? A slightly blue-white in the photos usually means there is no dedicated white channel and the system is faking it. Why that matters.
  • Are there any daylight photos at all? Galleries that are one hundred percent night shots are avoiding the question everybody actually has.

That last one is why the daylight photographs sit in this gallery rather than tucked away at the bottom. They are the least flattering images on the page and among the most useful. The permanent outdoor lighting page puts a dusk shot next to an after-dark one.

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