Thread: Outdoor flood lights

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I like to change the lighting on my graveyard to a bright glow from a full moon affect. I don't know what light I should buy. A blue 100w flood or maybe a LED light??? I have been looking in Menders and Home Depot to give me some information but I have know idea. Please help me...... The last 6 years the stones been red.

We changed our lighting last year to blue floods for a nice washed out moon glow look and it was great. If you can position the floods in trees aiming down at your display, it casts really neat long shadows. We also went with amber spots of some props which gave them a warm but eerie glow. We used to go with mostly green and white with strobes but have gotten away from this scheme.
I' d like to go with led spots but maybe next year due to budget constraints.
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I used both blue and red spotlights last year, and I think I liked the blue ones better. I don't know if I'll even use any red ones this year. I also used tiki torches which give a nice effect, just make sure they are away from where anyone may be walking for safety reasons.

heres what I did (not moon glow but creepy!) I sprayed ( lightly) my tombstones with glow in the dark hair spray,let dry and sprayed auto clear coat (in a can) on them for weather protection. put blacklights on them and you get a eriee green glow.

OK stupid question - where do you get the colored outdoor floodlights? I went to Lowes and Home Depot today and all they had were the plain white ones. Are these sepcial order?

I got mine at Wal-mart

Red Blue and Green, always 5.99 at the mart

Hmm... The Lowes here definitely had colored spot lights. Like they all said, Wal Mart.

I have been using blue and white flood lights over the years. I have found that using all blue is just too blue and obviously all white is well, too white. But a careful blend of the two colors creates a pretty good look. Of course you will want to go out every night a walk around adjusting lights for that "perfect" look cause you will never be 100% satisfied. That what i do anyway!

Last year I attached several blue flood lights high up on beams in one of our front trees. There'd be a few branches in front of the lights and it cast a beautiful moon-like gloe over the entire cemetery. I then used a few white/amber bulbs on the ground positioned at some of the stones/statues and it looked amazing.

I'll be doing it again this year, but probably with a few more ground lights to shine on certain things.

I've also found that back lighting certain tombstones, even with a green flood, looks very eerie when the fog rises up around the tombstones.