Portrait Lens Nikon

Is a 18-55 lens ok for taking PORTRAIT pix with a Nikon D3000?

Taking portrait photos. 55-200 lens not in stock.
Which is best lens for portraits. Please explain.
And thank you for any sound advice.

It will work, but is not really the best solution.
For 100.00 you can buy a 50mm F1.8 lens, that will produce much better results, but you will have to manually focus. The main reason is that you will have F1.8 as minimum aperture rather than F5.6. That will open up a lot of possibilities in terms of aperture, shutter speed and blurring the background.

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