Originally Posted by raptor117
The most effective and easiest way to shoot macro is with a macro lens (not the cheapest way, though!). But, both the 60mm and the 100mm macro lenses make good portrait lenses as well - on your body, the 100mm will do head-and-shoulders portraits, and the 60mm will do full-body. Personally, I prefer the 85mm f/1.8 for portraits but that won't do macro.
Sean has some great advice for a different approach - look over your photos with the 18-200. That lens is a compromise lens (ok IQ, lots of distortion). Figure out where within that huge range you like to shoot the most, and get a better lens (prime or a high quality zoom with less range) around those focal lengths. You can use your existing lens set to 100mm to see if that focal length will be too long for the kind or portraits you want to take.
Also, if you do want do macro you'll need a good tripod.
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