Preparing to buy a SLR, can the Nikon D5000 18-55 lens be used to take portraits with starburst effects in night scenes and blurred backgrounds?

It can be said that you can take some pictures, but the effect is not very good

You can use manual focus to make the focus disappear when taking the starburst effect of night scene, and you will have that kind of picture. It works

You can also use paper to make various shapes of space on the lens, and then you can shoot various shapes of night sky lighting effects. It is easier to achieve it with a lens like 50 1.4 or 50 1.8< /p>

If the background of the portrait is blurry, it must be achieved with a large aperture and a long focal length. You can buy a cheaper fixed focus lens 50 1.8. The price is the same as the 18-55 lens and the image quality is better than the 18-55

For portraits, the background can also be blurred

For better ones, you can buy 50. 1.4D costs about 2,000 yuan for 50. 1.4G costs about 3,000 yuan. The imaging effect is very good in terms of background blur and color. It is much better than 50 1.8

There is also a DX format fixed focus 35 1.8G which is also good. The new lens image is also good and only costs around 1300 yuan. It depends on your own needs

There are also many telephoto lenses that can produce good background blurring effects, and there are many models

By the way, the D5000 does not have a focus motor, so you can only use AF-S lenses, both the 50 1.4D and 50 1.8. No more