you know having a selection of lenses

to cover everything obviously if you can afford it

lots of lenses are great prime lenses

which are ones with the big glass and you know

are made specifically

for a job

you know they're expensive

but they are amazing lenses

a lot of people go for more of a zoom which will allow you

to zoom in zoom out wider i dont tend to i tend to use primes

i have one or two which i love i have a tilt and shift lens

which allows you to change literally tilts the focus plain

on itself on an axis and its

very popular at the moment very trendy at the moment a good macro lens which is more like a

portrait lens it gets very close is

ideal i mean i would happily have lived off that lens for the whole of my life and not

changed the lens i could have done anything on that lens really

a wide angle again

never really works with food unless

where occasionally you'll be abroad and you want to take a whole

tabletop and you want to take it from above and you can get the whole lot in

but

to be honest you use these things

once in a blue moon

whether you want to invest the money in that for once in a blue moon you know i have to

do it because its my job

if i'm taking my photos

for blogs or whatever there's no point you have a lens you love and you

tend to stick with it

fifty ml

eighty ml something like that

they also make these little close up extenders

you know if you have a standard lens you can buy the little extension tubes

which go on they are little rounds of metal

and you put them on between your camera and your lens and they allow you to get

that little bit closer each time the bigger

the extension tube the closer you can get

and they are fun and you can get lovely macro setting on those you can get very very close

very shallow focus you know your photo can almost become paintely

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