For Thanksgiving I went to my friend's house and saw their beautiful garden. Her father was the one that installed and designed the layout for everything. There were LED lights inside the fountain, little LED flowers, and a LED moon that could be adjusted as "Full", "Crescent" or "Half". The layout created a sense of depth with the black background. The isolation of the lights keeps your focus on the piece itself, and the darkness surrounding it creates a never ending space. Here is a side to side comparison of the same thing taken at different times of the day. The darkness around it adds more to the depth of the piece and the green LED on the very top of the fountain draws your eye back towards it. By following the light you get the sense of an incline to the center of the spot. Overall it was a beautiful set up and it was more breathtaking in person, than on camera!
Nice image and thoughts. Depth in lighting can be seen in many ways but most importantly is in composition, without a 3 dimensional environment and the use of varying foreground and background the eye cannot differentiate space. This can be clearly seen in a digital rendering that has not been lit, or in reality, in a room lit entirely with fluorescent light - the eye simple does not know where to look, so it can be tricked as to where depth truly exits.
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