Human eyes are poor at judging absolute brightness because they ADAPT so readily to all sorts of lighting conditions. Have you ever tried to take a photo from the indoors where there’s a window? If you exposed for the details inside, the outside would be washed out but if you set the camera to capture outdoor details, the inside would be too dark. This is because the camera does not have a brain – your brain is merging the information from the entire scene so that you can perceive all the details simultaneously.
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The inside picture at shutter speed 1/60 is much darker than the outdoor picture, taken at 1/200 (if I took the same scene at 1/60, you wouldn’t see anything at all – it would have been completely white)…and it was an overcast day.
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#whatmyplantsees – here’s why my saying “let your plant see the sky” has better diagnostic power than “bright indirect light”: the two images give you an unbiased sense of the drastic difference in brightness and it can be explained by how much of the sky can be seen. If the plant is outdoors, it has a wide view of the sky, completely unobstructed except from the rear because it is against the building. But indoors, your ceiling and walls block out the majority of the view of the sky. Thus, in order to get bright indirect light indoors, I keep saying you must give your plants as wide a view of the sky as possible – that means, the plant should go right up against the window just so that it can have at most a quarter of the light it received at the nursery. When dealing with plants that require “bright indirect light” (i.e. ALL tropical foliage), you shouldn’t be trying to give them as much SUN as possible, you should be giving them as wide a view of the SKY as possible. An important distinction: “let your plant see the sky” is not the same as “let your plants see the sun”…don’t use the words light and sunlight interchangeably…
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