Can you get the same depth of field, with a Nikon D5100?

This shot was taken with a canon 5D mark 2, and I love the shallow DOF and was wondering… If taken properly… Can you get the same DOF with a Nikon D5100, with the right lenses of coarse.

The same answer I gave you earlier applies.

Duh. DOF has nothing to do with camera bodies. Its a lens characteristic.

A link would help, but the full frame of the 5D has a theoretical advantage over a cropped sensor camera. Here are several samples from a D300: Look over the thumbnails and click on any that look like what you hope to achieve. You should be able to duplicate these results with your D5100 and the right lens.
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For those who do not know about the relation between depth of field and sensor size, please see this article: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/...r-size.htm

Shallow depth of field (sometimes called selective depth of field) is the result of using fast, long lenses and placing the subject close to the camera:

Sample using your D5100?

Nikkor 105 mm f/2.8 with the aperture set at f/2.8 and the subject about two feet from the lens. If you have a longer f/2.8 lens the subject can be further away.

Depth of field is more related to the f/stop of the lens than the camera.
A Nikon D5100 with a F1.2 lens will have a shallower depth of field than a 5D with a F4.5 lens.
If they had the exact same lens equivalents, the difference would be marginal.

Take two cameras, one full frame, one cropped frame, that have the same lens mount. Using the same lens on the two cameras and shooting the same image with the same settings the depth of field will be identical! The only difference is that on the cropped frame camera you lose the out-laying part of the image because it fell outside the area of the sensor inside the camera.

*trying to keep this as non-technical as possible.

DOF has nothing to do with the camera - it is down to the lens and how you control the aperture and distance to subject.

Buy a book on basic photography.