Too funny. You all are brain washed by the "equipment" pushers and it becomes the blind leading the blind. The OP is obviously not a camera person and therefore is probably not going to begin to comprehend the workings of your average DSLR, let alone be willing to pony up a grand or two for the equipment.
Here are a couple of shots from an IPhone I just took using available light that took 10 seconds to make. No tripod or anything. Better location and light would be even better.
http://s1074.photobucket.com/u...caletrains7/library/
The herald photos and Atlas tanker are with a tiny Pentax Q camera. The tanker by itself is a older Pentax DSLR with a macro lens. Let's see, the Iphone, well, it's an IPhone. The Pentax Q mirrorless costs a couple hundred on Ebay. The DSLR was originally a $500 camera with a $350 lens. For the money, the IPhone and inexpensive Pentax mirrorless Q type photos are perfect for someone like the OP. And the newer mirrorless cameras are even better and cheaper.
You Nikon/Canon worshippers are just too funny, and by the way, I do have a Canon 10D, 20D, and 40D. Various lenses including a Canon EF 100mm Macro with ring light.
And the mirrorless Pentax blows all that expensive crap away for taking photos of models and modeling. Either get a new IPhone or a mirrorless of some kind, and leave all the expensive my camera is better than yours crap to people that worship such things.
