For most of the people professional photography means expensive cameras and costly equipment with price tags somewhere around $1500.00. Not for me – i was lucky enough to be given Nikon D3000 for my birthday and i must say i love it. By the way – Best Buy now has it on sale – go check it out.
Besides professional modes on the settings dial it has your regular point-and-shoot camera options for portrait, landscape, sport and auto mode. So you can experiment with aperture and ISO in pro-mode and if fail switch back to the basic ones, shooting awesome quality pictures. Camera kit lens, which are included with this one are great for taking not only portrait photos, but for shooting almost anything.
Take a look at those i took not so long ago in Central Park:
