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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vincent" data-source="post: 303637" data-attributes="member: 15675">Hello Jackehboy,First of all welcome and thanks for the introduction.Nobody can choose lenses for you, it depends on how you feel your pictures and what you want to do with them.From what I understand you are taking still pictures (that is not races).I also understand you struggle with the 50mm on the APS-C sensor (giving a field of view of 75mm equivalent).Since I understand you have the 18-55, you should try if 35mm or 24mm or 18mm gives you enough "space". Just leave it on one setting and try it, just to try the frame even if the rest is less then you want. Alternative like Lawrence states, ask around and borrow or hire.On the brokeh, the masters are more in the 80-135mm range. In wide this is more difficult, already theoretically.To force it on a budget, you would go to lenses like the Rokinon/Samyang 24mm f1,4, the Nikon/Zeiss lenses are more expensive, since they solve the issues the cheap ones have, but it is just you can do more, it is not that you can not do great things on a budget.For very close car photography I like the Tokina 11-16mm f2,8 I have, but for brokeh you are talking very close and for portrait it is a no-go.P.S.: Nikon 28mm f2.8G or Nikon 20mm f/2.8 AF-D might be quite unexpected, but very good choices. I was very tempted by a 24mm f2.8D second hand lately, someone else bought it.</blockquote>