Andrew Price posts a look on Blender Guru at mastering lighting in Blender covering the core fundamentals of good lighting and provides some insight into common lighting mistakes made when lighting 3D scenes.

Lighting is a pretty daunting topic if you don’t understand the theory. Most people can differentiate between a good lighting system and a bad one, but few people know why

Andrew dives deep into theory citing examples from the masters and explaining light set ups for photography and puts it all into practice in creating a really nice looking still life scene in Blender.

Check out the post for mastering lighting in Blender here.