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My name is Brent Shelly with Expert Village and we are talking about lighting design today.
Another common residential space is a study or an office. There are some pretty extreme
visual tasks in this type of spare. A lot of times you will need to read something that
has very small print and low contrast. So you need a lot of illumination for this type
of tasks. One of the challenges is lighting a horizontal surface such as a desk and doing
it in such a way that you don't get glare from your reading back into your eyes. You
have to remember that the angle of accidents is equal to angle of incidents. So if your
light is coming from in front of you, it will bounce off what you are reading and go into
your eyes. What I like to do is have two sources. One from the right and one from the left that
cross from the side so, that way the reflections go away from you as you read a glossy magazine
for instance.