I think Thalek was using a light set specifically designed to go with that "scene" using the cyclorama, not the Poser default lights.

But Cyclorama predates IBL and IDL, and so in those days people did ambient (global) lighting using 50 spotlights. This is stupid.

You have an environment. Turn on IDL. There's half your lighting, without any lights at all. (Assuming you have a sky. If you don't, get my environment sphere. Then you have 7000 skies for free.)

Then add one infinite, at 80% intensity, white, raytrace shadows, .5 blur radius. That's the beginner's formula that keeps you out of trouble.

You will need to post-work your levels, but it will look pretty good. Later, you learn to adjust light intensity so that postwork is no longer needed. But this is advanced.

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