Art galleries have this flooding light that barely leaves any shadows. It‘s very neutral in color and makes all colors pop more. Anybody know what kind of light tubes they use these days? Are those LEDs? Trying to recreate a similar setup in a room.
Gallery lighting
Not sure the exact type of lights that they use, but I do know they have a ton of fixtures everywhere to eliminate shadowing, so start by putting in a bunch of fixtures in the room you want this in.
Yeah def they are spamming the lights. Def planning on doing that. Just trying to figure out what kind of light to go for, considering I can‘t really test with the proper amount of lights. Know next to nothing about lighting.
Flourescent tubes are used for exactly this purpose
Widespread diffuse light, minimal shadows
they look like those barrina lights on amazon. i have them in my garage and yeah they're 100% neutral and super bright.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07PG3RLH7
LED strips are made nowadays in the same formfactor as a tube flourescent, which makes very soft and diffuse shadows. See
or the fanblade-style ones (google "led garage light"). I'm not sure about color, I'd imagine flourescent has a more consistent and filled spectrum than LED (with incandescent on top, but you're not going to find that in an affordable long tube).
In theatrical lighting, incandescent lamps (sometimes LEDs) are used in a big row to light the width of the stage, or a painted backdrop, without shadows or variations. These are called "striplights" or "cyc lights" (cyclorama is the name for a plain-white reflective backdrop which is colored for different scenes using lighting). These have the advantage in that their color can be set and dynamically changed. Pic attached is a modern, small LED-based striplight.
Look for "high CRI" LEDs. They're more expensive, but they cover more spectrum.
Not-yet-architect here, the key to achieving gallery lighting is to evenly distribute many light sources that diffuse well, and to have some form of extra diffuser on the roof or around the fixture. Galleries are BRIGHT as hell, much brighter than your common house. So you want to avoid bulb lights (without significant diffusers), and flourescent lights (just in general).
Find some nice led lights that have good spectrum coverage (so not the chinesium crap), and stick diffusers on there. Proper diffusers make you lose around %30 light IIRC, or %50. So you'll need a lot of extra light.
Another issue in a house room is the low volume will inevitably cause wall washing and uneven wall lighting.
Personally, I'd go with indirect lighting on the ceiling with hidden led strips (plenty of examples on google). Basically you shoot led's towards the ceiling and the white ceiling diffuses it down, then you use the regular lighting fixtures for spot lighting whatever you are trying to showcase/have as a work area.
See how the ceiling is curved like that? And how everything is white? Lots of bounce.
They often use 5500K lighting, which is used in color correction rooms and in photography. It's the best fit in between too red and too blue. It's the closest to sunlight at noon.
White walls. Satin finish.
LED with a high CRI output.
Or KinoFlo type tubes in fluorescent strips.
To make colors appear accurate, you need lighting with a high CRI reproduction. Gets expensive....
Depends on your budget
But there are basically 3 things
1. diffuse lights. can be achieved by different techniques, but most common is to use some form of slot diffuser, or have the lights bounce off the ceiling
2. spots to eliminate corner shadows. often will find diffusers on the spots, although a spot diffuser is different than a general diffuser
3. Finishes. Floors are high gloss to bring light up from below, walls are satin and typically mildly reflective as well.
If budget is no issue, get a Lutron Ketra guy out there and he'll install exactly the system you want. It will cost you the price of a new luxury sedan.