Drag the handle
Four properties, one variable: the lighting
Drag the handle to move between the two halves. The right half is the finished photograph; the left is a placeholder while the matching before shot — same view, same position, taken before the system was installed — is photographed for each property.
BeforeFront elevation · Houston
BeforeEntry and approach · Houston
BeforeBackyard · Houston
BeforeMonument sign · commercial
Why this page exists
The only comparison that actually proves anything
A finished photograph shows a property looking good at night. It does not show what the same property looked like the evening before the system was installed — which is the whole question.
A before-and-after pair answers it: the same view, the same framing, the same camera position, with the lighting as the only variable. That is the standard we hold this page to.
Which is also why it is not full yet. Matched pairs have to be shot deliberately — a photograph of the dark property before work starts, and the same frame again after the night-time review. We are building the set as projects come through; the slots above are what it will hold.
What a pair has to be
Same view, same frame
- The same camera position, before the work and after it
- The same framing and focal length
- Both shots after dark, not one in daylight
- One property per pair, never two similar houses
Anything looser than that is two photographs, not a comparison — and the page would be making a claim the images do not support.
Meanwhile
What the finished work already shows
The residential and commercial archives are full of finished systems photographed on the property after dark. They will not prove the difference the way a pair does, but they show the range: what gets lit, what is left dark, and how a property reads when the design is right.
If you have photos
Your own before shot is worth keeping
If you are thinking about lighting, take a few photographs of the property after dark before anything happens — from the street, from the drive, from the patio doors. It costs nothing and it is the only before shot that can ever exist for your property.
Send them with your enquiry. They tell us more about what is wrong than a description does, and they become the first half of a pair.
Free consultation
Start with the dark version
The consultation happens on the property after sunset, which is exactly when the before shot is worth taking.