Have been looking at buying another lens for my camera for a while now, and came accross a lot of information regarding the Canon 50mm f1.8 II prime lens, which is very cheap (~$130.00) but provides amazingly sharp photos, along with going down to f1.8.

The advantage of being able to stop the lens so low, is that you can shoot in quite low light conditions, although the depth of field also gets a lot narrower at the same time. This makes it great for portrait photos, food photography, or anything where you're trying to really highlight something, but not have the background distracting attention.

When taking photos of people, the "bokeh" behind them is something that this lens really is good at creating.

Can very much recommend this lens, I've uploaded an example photo here (which was taken in very low light) and I shall hopefully have a lot more to come!