This weekend's reading: Takeing profesional photos

I was browseing through the archives of stock photography at the Stock Exchange website, looking for good inspiration and well, photos. And I ran across this tip/tutorial for creating Profesional Photos.

When taking your own photos, you want lots of light - but not direct light. Direct light will cause harsh shadows, which you don’t want. DO NOT USE A FLASH! Flashes wash out colors and details – and even the entire photo if you are taking close up shots.

Along with giveing relistic advice on simple photography, it allso walks through te process of creating a simple (and budgeted) light box for creating a diffused lighting eviornment
check out the post here [Takeing profesional Photos without the profesional]