How to take indoor photo studio quality pictures at home?

I recently bought a Nikon D5100 with the 18-55 and 18-200 lens. One of the biggest reasons was to save money from going to the Photo studio's like portrait innovations for the little one. I'm looking for tips and tricks on how to take photo studio indoor pictures at home. How would you recommend setting up, for now i want to use cheap home items to get started like bed sheets or stand up lights. Please give me some tips and tricks on how to get started.

Well i wanted to do that too but i had no space in my house to set up a lights a background and a camera.
What i did was take my projector screen and set it up outside in the day. Then i took some portraits and the came out looking really natural and you couldnt even tell it was outside when cropped.

I then did the same thing inside using just a flash and the background. It didn't look as nice as the outside one but it worked.

If you have a spare room then you could set up there. If not you may have to temporarily use a room.

You can use home lights but it may give the picture a yellowish look.

i got 2 led lights from ebay for 100$ and they work great (Search 160 Led Continuous light and it should come up) Also you could try natural lighting
You could use a white wall for the back drop

I'm not a pro but these are just a few of the things i did

Use natural light and forget the bed sheet as a background. Studio lights put out a lot of light and are balanced so the light is all the same temperature. It is tough to duplicate for kids on a budget. Cheap lights get very hot and don't have great modifiers to soften the light. Natural light with a neutral reflector will get you better results.

Here are some good tips and ideas. They are all from this page, which has a lot of other things to explore:
http://pinterest.com/...oup-board/

http://www.expertphotography.com/take-sharper-photos-10-timeless-tips
http://www.expertphotography.com/window-light-portraits
http://121clicks.com/inspirations/beautiful-portraits-of-kids

You do realise that it will be a year or two before you understand photography enough to produce good results with your camera right?

Sure, you don't need thousands of dollars worth of gear to get some decent results… For example, this was shot with:

- a 300 watt CFL (around 80$)
- 1 lightstand (15$)
- 1 reflector dish (around 100$)
- 1 bacground kit (200$)
- 1 roll of seemless white paper (50$)

SHOT:
SETUP:

But it's more than just the gear that matters. Can you tell me what type of portrait lighting was used here? Can you tell me why I framed the shot the way I did? What meetering mode do you think I used to get a proper meeter reading for this type of shot?

Actually, do you understand even the basics of photography like exposure (how aperture, shutter speed and ISO work together)?

You'll need to take some basic courses and then practice alot… In a year or two, you might be able to produce portraits worthy of Wallmart PhotoStudio (shudder in revultion). But for now, if you want gorgeous portraits of your little one before he/she heads off to university, you'll still have to go to a studio to get studio quality shots because the photographer at the studio not only has good gear but the skill and knowledge to use it.