This is me being a 100% armchair physicist, but I'd theorize it'd be something like trying to iluminate a room with a flashlight vs pointing it to a white (diff

This is me being a 100% armchair physicist, but I'd theorize it'd be something like trying to iluminate a room with a flashlight vs pointing it to a white (diffusive?) surface, counter intutively you achieve better* ilumination with the aditional diffusive surface * Better for say, photography