Taking or Making

In photographing landscapes, places, and found environments, perhaps the difference between making and taking lives 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, giving me an image assembled deliberately.

The 35mm deals with one specific thing at a time (in my opinion) and doesn’t layer forms as nicely as the 50mm, great for storytelling and building trust between viewers and subject matter.