Light therapy is often used to help people with seasonal affective disorder (16) feel less depressed. The most common light therapy colors are white or occasionally blue lighting (17), but a 2015 report in the Journal of Affective Disorders (18) found little scientific merit for using white light this way. Given the results of other scientific studies, novel home color light options including, as discussed above, red, green, and blue may have more positive mood effects – and the lighting options below may better suit these colors.

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According to a 2009 Canadian Medical Association Journal (14) survey of green light’s use in hospitals, green light may have soothing qualities. The healthcare experts and hospital architects surveyed in the CMAJ report all noted that green helped to calm tense hospital patients. Similarly, a 1994 study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology (15) found a correlation between green light exposure and pleasant emotions.

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‘MM’  is the focal length of the lens. All lenses have a “mm” number printed on them; some have a range of focal lengths. These numbers can vary hugely, from 8mm (a fisheye lens), all the way up to 1000mm and even beyond.

As you can see, varying focal lengths have a huge affect on the type of photograph that you are going to capture. Based on what your subject is and your distance from it, it is up to you to decide what photograph you want and make a decision as to what lens you will need accordingly.

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In order to illustrate this, I have taken different photographs of the same subject matter at different focal lengths. Take a look at the shots below with their accompanying mm values. Note that I was using a Canon 7D mkii, which has a crop sensor, which I will explain further in another blog post.

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Getting to know your camera can be a little daunting. You will be confronted with a whole new host of technical terms and abbreviations, and can at times feel a little lost.

White or off-yellow indoor lighting is an everyday indoor phenomenon, so it can be exciting to walk into a room flush with atypical red, blue, or green lighting. That excitement can also come from the presence of color itself – one color can affect your body and mood way differently than another! Below, we’ll discuss how colors influence your mood, which colors may have the strongest effects, and how you can experience these colored lighting effects every day.

Our BlissBulbs gently sweep your room in red stars that softly glimmer along your walls and ceiling. Place these bulbs in your usual light fixtures, then turn your fixtures on, and voila – full red immersion and, possibly, a calmer mood.

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I don’t often disagree with the blogs on Londolozi but I think MM stands for More Money in Nikon/Canon/Sony’s pocket and LM stands for less money in yours.???

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However, a basic understanding of a few of the more common ones will not only help you make a decision when buying a lens, but will also go a long way towards helping you capture great wildlife shots.

The same 2017 Journal of Physical Therapy Science study that correlated yellow light exposure with inclinations toward activity came to the same conclusion regarding white light exposure. Additionally, a 2020 Current Biology (10) study suggested that white light is disruptive enough to the physiology of birds’ brains – which a 2013 study (11) found are similar to humans’ brains – to result in sleep disruption if exposure occurs at night.

Color-changing bulbs screw into your standard light fixtures. They’re usually LED lights capable of displaying virtually any color on the rainbow, but you don’t have to look solely to LEDs for your colored room lighting. Our BlissBulbs use lasers to bring the mood-changing effects of red, blue, and green colors to your indoor space, and since lasers are brighter and more focused than LEDs, you might feel your desired mood shift more strongly.

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Red light may impart a calming effect, though research into the effect of red colors on the mind remains ongoing. That said, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (6) has acknowledged a possible relationship between red light’s shorter wavelength and the body’s relative insensitivity to this light color. According to this theory, since the human eye is less sensitive to higher-wavelength light (7) than, say, blue wavelengths (which are shorter than red wavelengths), the body lacks stimulation in red lighting, and your mind is thus calmer.

No matter the colored light effects you seek, adding more color to your everyday life can be super easy. Some ideas include:

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A 2017 study in the Journal of Physical Therapy Science (8) found that yellow light exposure can make people more inclined to partake in vigorous activity than blue or red light. Additionally, in his oft-cited book Color Psychology and Color Therapy (9), author and psychologist Faber Birren argues that yellow is among the most stimulating light colors. These conclusions may make more sense when you consider that yellow lighting is not only similar in hue to natural lighting but a dominant indoor lighting color in homes, stores, offices, and myriad other spaces.

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You can harness the serenity of green lighting for yourself with a BlissLights Ark Ambient Aurora Light. The green aurora that this laser projector slowly moves throughout your room isn’t just fascinating enough to put you into a mild daze – it’s colored just the right hue to make all those pleasant emotions bubble to the surface!

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According to the aforementioned 2017 PLOS ONE study, exposure to blue light upon stress level spikes leads to relaxation three times more quickly than exposure to white light.

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Wide angle lenses have smaller focal lengths than telephoto lenses. The majority of wide angle lenses are 35mm or smaller whilst telephoto lenses start at 70mm and go up from there. Wide angle lenses include more of a scene, while telephoto lenses generally include only a small part of a scene.

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This is a great blog Kylie. Please write more like this for a novice/amateur photographer like me. There is a lot of information to learn and you described this perfectly.

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It is often incorrectly assumed that the focal length is measured from the front to the rear of the lens when, in reality, it’s the distance between the point of convergence in your lens to the sensor or film in your camera.

Blue light exposure can also be great for getting work done. A 2016 study in the scientific journal Sleep (12) showed that blue may exposure may help you perform cognitive tasks better, just as a 2018 study in the World Journal of Biological Psychiatry (13) found that blue light may increase alertness. Whether you’re going for this focused mood or a more relaxed aura, our Sky Lite Evolve Galaxy Projector brings all the blue to you – submerging your room in cyan and blue nebulas. Bliss has never been easier or more entrancing than with our laser projections!

Good post about focal length. I’ve found that having a 70-200 2.8 works well considering the distance you often find yourself from an animal. That being said, sometimes I wished I had a bit more length so have now purchased a 1.7 teleconverter which only reduces the f-stop by 1.5 stops. Sometimes we just have to carry two cameras-each with a different focal length as you never know what you’ll see and changing lenses on the run is never great because if the dust. Thanks!!

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As we mentioned earlier, aurora lights give your room the illusion of seeing the northern lights in person under gorgeous night skies. With these lights, instead of traveling to the world’s extremes, you can relax at home and easily enjoy your own personal nighttime light show – and the mood shifts that come with it. Our Ark Ambient Aurora Light is the leader in this lighting field and a convenient, exciting way to give yourself just the hues (and moods) you need.

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There are different purposes for different focal lengths. If you are shooting a group of people having some sundowners next to the game viewer, you would want to use a wide angle lens. You would then be able to include all of your subject in a single shot and not need to move further away. If you are shooting wildlife however, you would need a longer focal length lens, because there is often a limit to how physically close you can get to the animal.