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>>77958 The zoom lens you have right now, I'd bet, is the 18-55 without IS. I don't think the 18-55 IS will be a macro lens, and I'm pretty sure it's going to be of similar (sucky) quality to the current 18-55.
If your camera is a film or full-frame digital one, the best lens you could buy would be a 50/1.x, like the one already suggested. The 50/1.4 is worth the extra money, though... I got to shoot with it on a 5D last weekend, and I almost never took it off f/1.4 and almost wet myself over the bokeh. And I'm not normally big on shallow depth of field at all.
If it's a crop sensor, buy instead a fast prime in the 28-35mm range. It'll be a dozen times more versatile than a slow and sucky zoom lens. If you don't mind your autofocus being buggy (Sigma lenses don't autofocus well on most Canon bodies), the Sigma 28/1.8 is wonderful, and the 30/1.4 isn't too bad, either.
One camera, one lens, one focal length is the stock advice for people learning photography. It actually works, too: after a few months shooting almost entirely at 42mm equivalent, I can mentally picture what a scene shot at that focal length would look like if I was standing at a certain spot and holding the camera a certain way.
As a side note, one of the Hungarian photographers (I think it was Kertész, but I'm not sure) couldn't afford a camera for many years, but he practiced anyway by holding up his fingers to form a frame and then clicking his tongue like a shutter whenever he saw something he would photograph.
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