Ethan, Eva, Food and More!: Fun with a Nikon D90

I've wanted a DSLR for a while. It mostly started when I started thinking about how much money I've spent this past year on having professional portraits done of the children! DSLR cameras are expensive, but I figure if I can learn to use one half way competently, it would balance out eventually.

I spent a LOT of time researching the cameras. I read forum discussions online (this largely confused me as the discussions were often too technical), read reviews on Amazon, asked friends who owned DSLR's (this was the most helpful) and asked a professional photographer her opinion.

In the end, I narrowed it down to 2 models - the Nikon D5100 and the Nikon D90. These 2 models were both highly recommended, so to help make my decision, my very bestest friend lent me her D90 for a few days.

It was a crazy few days! Julien, you know how much we chatted about all the fun things I should attempt! I will admit I still don't know a lot about cameras, but shooting in manual mode really wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be.

In the end, I ended up going with the Nikon D5100 because it was easy to find locally and Costco had what I thought was a good deal, but I loved the D90 too.

Here are a few of the fun shots I got!