Blender Lighting Rigs

When one goes to render in a 3d modeling program much of what one sees is based on the lighting. Lighting is a profession in theatre and film. Lighting is hard to get right in 3d.

The blender manual located at: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual
has a good tutorial on lighting: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Lighting_Rigs
at the end of the tutorial a link to a .blend with all of the lighting rigs referenced is recommended with this exhortation:

"Hopefully, you will want to download the blend file here. Save it on your hard drive, and when you want to start a new scene, do a File->Append->(filename)->Scene->(and select the rig you want)."

Download the LightingRig Blend

Documentation is getting better in the Blender world since the advent of Wikis.