Taking or Making

In landscapes, places, and found environments, perhaps the difference between making and taking pictures lies in the focal length, where a 35mm takes, and a 50mm makes.

I’ll line up my shot with the 50mm — a process in which I’ll layer foregrounds over backgrounds and sometimes forget what I’m looking at because meaning can wait.

Pair the exposure compensation dial with the light — for example, raise the exposure by one stop in daylight, or set it to zero or lower at dusk, on most cameras. If the light is bright, set it as so, same with darker conditions.

On overcast days, I prefer monochrome.

I’m just looking for a place to take pictures, somewhere safe for walking around, without bothering anybody and anybody bothering me, just doing something for the fun of it.

Empower.

Between taking something down or making something up, build.