By Luke Walker Perhaps you are interested in eventually building your very own home photography studio. Let's look at some useful tips on how to go about this. First and foremost, you're best off using a fairly small sized room with neutral white walls. White walls ensure that the light remains uncolored, so that the person you are photographing doesn't get subjected to any coloration by the light (imagine if your walls were neon yellow for example...). You may have a soft box, an umbrella, or both in the room. A soft box is a small box that connects on top of the flash, the small flash tube fires its light out, which is reflected from the insides of the walls of the soft box before passing through a translucent material that goes over the front of the soft box, shattering the light in all directions. An umbrella is very similar to a soft box with the main difference being that some of the light coming from the flash is able to pass through it, and the rest ref...