My first SLR was an ego purchase. Rich people around me that had rich people cameras were taking pictures that looked as though they’d been through years of photography school. My trusty Canon point-and-shoot may have been resiliently tolerant of my clumsiness and seemingly genetic predisposition to drop it into the unforgiving hands of concrete sidewalks and half full pint glasses, but it took little more than sharp colorful pictures. I envied my friends to could take those awesome pictures with a subject sharply in focus and everything else artistically blurred out. Turns out that even inexpensive, entry-level dSLR’s and manual point-and-shoots can give you the same effect.

My first SLR was an ego purchase. Rich people around me that had rich people cameras were taking pictures that looked as though they’d been through years of photography school. My trusty Canon point-and-shoot may have been resiliently tolerant of my clumsiness and seemingly genetic predisposition to drop it into the unforgiving hands of concrete sidewalks and half full pint glasses, but it took little more than sharp colorful pictures. I envied my friends to could take those awesome pictures with a subject sharply in focus and everything else artistically blurred out. Turns out that even inexpensive, entry-level dSLR’s and manual point-and-shoots can give you the same effect.

My first SLR was an ego purchase. Rich people around me that had rich people cameras were taking pictures that looked as though they’d been through years of photography school. My trusty Canon point-and-shoot may have been resiliently tolerant of my clumsiness and seemingly genetic predisposition to drop it into the unforgiving hands of concrete sidewalks and half full pint glasses, but it took little more than sharp colorful pictures. I envied my friends to could take those awesome pictures with a subject sharply in focus and everything else artistically blurred out. Turns out that even inexpensive, entry-level dSLR’s and manual point-and-shoots can give you the same effect.

My first SLR was an ego purchase. Rich people around me that had rich people cameras were taking pictures that looked as though they’d been through years of photography school. My trusty Canon point-and-shoot may have been resiliently tolerant of my clumsiness and seemingly genetic predisposition to drop it into the unforgiving hands of concrete sidewalks and half full pint glasses, but it took little more than sharp colorful pictures. I envied my friends to could take those awesome pictures with a subject sharply in focus and everything else artistically blurred out. Turns out that even inexpensive, entry-level dSLR’s and manual point-and-shoots can give you the same effect.