Good evening Kcuf2
tks for replying to my queries.
thing is i'm still new to the photography world and thus i've still not establish wat i really wanna shoot. currently i just going around and shoot, hoping to learn all the basics of photography...
ok.... i guess the bess for you in the meantime is to go out and shoot more.. from there perhaps u will eventually find out wat u really love shooting about.
Wat u love/want to shoot will greatly influence what lens/flash/support like tripod that u will want to buy.
1) If u love to shoot human portraits, ur kit lens image quality is pretty good, and ur lens has no problem shooting portraits. However if u wan to get images which shows just the human and the background totally blur out, u will need lenses with big apetures such as 50mm f1.8, 85mm f1.8. BIG apetures allow u focus on the human face/body and blur out the background.
2) If u love to shoot landscape, scenery, ur kit lens again will do the job pretty well. The focal length of 18-55 covers wide to medium situations. Of course there are more expensive lenses around such as the 17-35 f2.8, 14-28 f2.8.
http://www.nikon.com.sg/products.php?categoryid=22 These lenses differ in that they have bigger apeture at f2.8 compared to ur kit lens of f3.5-f5.6. Bigger apeture lens helps when shooting at night. Big hole = more light can come in = can shoot at a faster speed = minimize handshake blur
3) If u love to shoot sports, events such as SHE, jolin tsai coming to singapore, concerts, U will need telephoto lenses in the range of 80-200mm, 70-200mm, 55-200mm. At these events, most probably u will be standing abt 30 - 50 metres from the celebrity, and a zoom range of 55-200 or 70-200 allows u to shoot the celebrity from waist level or zoom in further for a head shot. u will also wanna get a flash (range from $200-$700) to shoot for those sparkles in eye effects.
http://www.nikon.com.sg/products.php?categoryid=22 <-- look at the lenses in the 55-200mm, 80-200mm and 70-200mm range
4) If u love to shoot birds, wildlife or things that are far far away, u will need to get lenses that are minimum 300mm. However when u step into this zone of lenses > 300mm, they are dam freaking expensive. there are cheaper variety around such as this
http://www.nikon.com.sg/productitem.php?pid=90-e00cd4c502 which cost around $250 in shops, the image quality is poor. In fact the image quality is poorer than ur D50 kit lens. the average performer lenses in these >300mm range cost easily $2k upwards. the elite performing ones are the $10k variants.
http://www.nikon.com.sg/products.php?categoryid=26 <--- look at the lenses above 300mm
EVEN when u buy the big big lens to shoot, u will also need to think about buying super sturdy tripod to support ur $10k heavy lens (the lens could easily be 3-5kg, ur D50 + kit lens is less than 1kg), these big tripod and again not cheap costing abt $2k-3k for the tripod leg and ball head.
5) If u love to shoot those tiny weeny insects, flower petals, butterflies, u will need macro lenses
http://www.nikon.com.sg/products.php?categoryid=27 The more expensive macro lenses are those that are longer focal length example 105mm and 200mm. The longer focal length are important for shooting insects and butterflies because u can shoot at a further distance away without scaring them away. for 60mm, u are about 20cm away from the insect, which is very close (take a ruler and picture how close it is)
And for macro shoot, it is advisable to use dedicated macro flash,
http://www.nikon.com.sg/productitem.php?pid=828-3330fccebf <--- on the right hand side, click on useful information for the price of Close-up Speedlight Commander Kit R1C1 :SGD$1377.55 yea
so u see wat u love to shoot will require u to have different equipment and setup to ensure u get that perfect shot out.... so wat u love? ;p