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if you're in DSLR owner the lens that came with your camera is great for getting started but eventually you will grow out of it so if you're ready to purchase a new lens I have a few recommendations on exactly how to go about it hands down my favorite lens is the 50 millimeter 1.8 fixed lens it's great for portraits food photos and still life it is a prime lens or fixed lens so it doesn't zoom which means you'll have to get really close to your subject in order to frame up but the trade-off is huge it's a fast lens with a wide aperture which means super sharp photos even in low-light the best part is that it's only 100 dollars and that's not as cheap as it gets when you're shopping for portrait lens what you want is a lens that won't distort your subject you want the person to look like they do to the human eye you also want that really cool blurry background effect on a full size sensor camera like the Canon 5d get a lens with a focal length of 80 millimetres to 100 millimetres on a crop sensor camera like this one that translates to about 50 millimetres if you want to go any shorter than 50 millimetres your subject will start to look a little too stretched out so stick with this range for food photography you don't necessarily need a zoom lens instead go in the prime lens like the 35 millimeter 1.4 at this focal length the shots will be just wide enough to get a crisp photo of an entire plate of food without distorting it since it's fixed you will have to move around to get closer or wider but really that's a part of the intimacy of food photography when you're traveling there's a good chance you'll want to lens it'll take great landscape photos letting you capture wide sweeping shots of whatever exotic place you're in if you have to choose one lens to take with you on a trip the 18 to 35 millimeter 1.8 is the way to go and its widest you'll get great sweeping views of landscape and it's still great for close-ups of food and portraits of people all around this is a great go-to lens you