They are adorable!! You are absolutely right about cameras, it's so hard to adjust the settings and to get it to shoot nice pics. Your photos are beautiful! I live in Glendora, not too far from you, I would be interested in a photo session! I'll pay for your time! Private message me if you're willing to photograph my Ella.

Mike and Molly are so sweet together. I love those little tongues sticking out. Keep snapping more photos, you are developing quite a large fan club here, and we never get tired of seeing pictures.

They are soooo adorable <3

Thank you,
These guys never do neither, the trick is to get their attention for a fraction of a second, and snap right after... :-P .

You know what they say, once you go full frame, you can't go back to cropped :-P

Yes indeed, second hand can generate great savings, just shop carefully and know what to look for in used gear.

The T3i is an excellent camera that can give you amazing images, so I suggest you take it out of the box and get a book or watch a few videos on youtube about photography and you will love what you can do with it.

The trick of the the shallow depth of field (that is when you get part of the frame in focus and as things get further from that point they start blurring out of focus), is a combination of focal length, aperture and how close you are from the focus point with respect of the cameras sensor. The longer the focal length of your lens, the bigger your aperture and the closer you are from your subjects focus point, the more accentuated the effect gets.

Thank you :-) .

Sure, I would love to.... expect a PM from me pretty soon :-) .

Thank you very much :-D

You definitely don't have to spend 1k to get a DSLR, so don't let that intimidate you :). I have a Nikon D90, and it's still a bit pricey - but you could find one used at this point...perhaps for around $4-500 or so. For starting off w/ lenses, I'd recommend you get 1 zoom lens and 1 prime lens. A GREAT prime lens for cheap is the Nikon 50mm 1.8, which you could get around $100 used. I also really like the Sigma 30mm 1.4 prime. I have the Nikon 18-105mm zoom, which is a great all around zoom..which I mostly use when we travel. And then I have a Nikon 60mm micro lens, which is really fun to use when applicable.

If you get a DSLR, I'd highly recommend getting the SB400 so you can bounce the flash if you have to use flash (rather than using the built-in straight-on forward flash that causes such harsh light).

Fun set of lenses, my dear friend!

How exciting you're getting your first fancy schmancy camera! Most def take a class bc otherwise a DSLR can be quite overwhelming. I've seen a lot of beginner classes offered via Groupon and Living Social...so maybe you have those too, locally, where you are. For the best bokeh, a prime lens is what you really want to play with. The most economical prime is that Nikon 50mm 1.8.

And what GREAT pics, Miguel! Can't believe what great little models they are, wow. :)

Love the photos they are adorable.

Great advice, just make sure to get the 1.8g version not the 1.8d, the g is the newer much more improved version and it is still super cheap.

Thank you, they are great puppies.

Thank you very much....