Light Series 4 - Incandescent

A. This is a picture of a hotel room using incandescent lighting.
B. The purpose of the lighting is for task lighting (and maybe even accent lighting). Perhaps bedside reading, to create and a mood or feeling or a small light for navigation.
C. The luminaire is a table lamp and consists of a lamp shade and base. It mainly shines light downward and has a little bit of light that shines upward. There is a slight glow that permeates the shade too.
D. The effect of the light source creates a low light intimate mood setting. Because of the lamp shade it creates and interesting light pattern on the wall above and behind.
E. The effect of the light on different colors in the space creates a reddish tint on everything. The blue on the comforter almost looks grey-ish, brown. As you can see it also distorts some of the other colors too... but all of the reds look really bright and pop right off of the comforter.
F. The appropriateness of the illumination level is decent when combined with the overheard ambient lighting. Although when just the table lamps are used alone it creates too much contrast in the room and is uncomfortable to the eye.
G. Observations and Recommendations:

• There seems to be a bit of a "hot spot" underneath the lamp... perhaps too harsh for reading. Maybe consider using a compact fluorescent or a lower intensity incandescent.
• Use an incandescent that is closer to a white light instead of red since everything seems to have a funny reddish tint.
• Use more ambient lighting to reduce the contrast between the luminaires.