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JOHN CARSTARPHEN: Hi, this is John Carstarphen for Expert Village. Once you get the background
lighting established, you can determine how much and how great the key light is for the
foreground. Everything that happens in your scene has a foreground and a background. The
most important part of the scene, being the foreground, because that's where the audience's
eye will be drawn, so it becomes a question of balancing both what you have in the foreground,
both the way you place the camera. But for now, we're going to talk about where we place
the lights. So let's place one light. We'll create an omni-light and we'll put it way
in the background, behind this far building. We'll give it some color. Because we want
things to have different colors in the scene, which--that helps--having different colors
helps separate or create a sense of separation from the objects. And we're going to add some
falloff to that. We're going to make this light visible. We'll click OK. We'll increase the size of the falloff range
a little bit. And there we have our first light, which gives us a very interesting look
for that building.