Please don't think you need to run out and buy lots of new equipment so you can photograph people. If you can that's great, but remember "it's not what you have as far as equipment, it's more about what you do with what you have".One rule of thumb, when considering equipment to use for photographing people, is to use a longer lens or just zoom in. Wider lenses tend to make a face look bigger or wider than it really is, and your subject might not like that.
Also by zooming in, you won't need to do it later when cropping your photo, thus making the photo appear sharper.
