Picking a zoom lens seems to be cheating, since a zoom can cover just about any range you wish.
Now, if you limit it to a single focal length lens, as I think the questioner may have intended, then I'd recommend a fast 35mm. This focal length provides a bit of a wide angle perspective, but without any distortion, and can serve as a wider "normal" lens, instead of a 50mm. For a second lens, I'd have to go with a 90mm, or the classic Nikon 105 2.5.
But of course, the advent of high quality, fast zoom lenses has made the use of single focal length lenses somewhat of an aberration these days.
Picking a zoom lens seems to be cheating, since a zoom can cover just about any range you wish.
Now, if you limit it to a single focal length lens, as I think the questioner may have intended, then I'd recommend a fast 35mm. This focal length provides a bit of a wide angle perspective, but without any distortion, and can serve as a wider "normal" lens, instead of a 50mm. For a second lens, I'd have to go with a 90mm, or the classic Nikon 105 2.5.
But of course, the advent of high quality, fast zoom lenses has made the use of single focal length lenses somewhat of an aberration these days.