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You may want to get the kit lens, it's not a bad lens, but it's not great either, spend $100 on the "nifty fifty" the 50mm f1.8, and then get the zoom below. That would be a good start.

I don't know if I mentioned this previously, but the "L" line of lenses are Canon's professional lenses.

The cheap 50mm is actually a good lense. It's just simple which is why it's so cheap. The 70-200 F4L is a great lens, and an amazing price for an L lens, and the kit lens will cover your close up stuff. For a really good wide angle a lot of people like the 17-40L

EF 17-40/4L
$700

Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM Autofocus Lens
$600

Avoid the Canon 75-300 lenses, they are yucky, also avoid the 55-200.

If you want to spend less on a telephoto zoom I just recently got the Sigma 70-300 APO DG Macro Zoom. It's a decent budget zoom with half life size macro capabilities for $200.