Opinions please!

There are two very minor decisions that I need your opinions on please:

First:  I got some all-purpose seasoning for things like potatoes that don't have much flavour to them without seasoning and they seem to have even less when cooked in an air fryer.  When do I put the seasoning onto the potatoes though please?  Before I put them into the basket, half way through the cooking time or when I shake them onto my plate please?

Second:  Light shades - my living room light shade is about 20 years old and it's really showing its age now, so I'm pondering on replacing it.  Should I get a lightshade that points the light towards the ceiling, towards the floor or all around the lightbulb please?  The one I've got now keeps shining through the beads onto whatever is on the table and isn't a standard reflection on my blood pressure reader or my meal photos and I wanna change it to something that the photos are accurate without much reflection from the lightbulb.  

Anyone got any ideas?  Please??