I recently bought a 35mm f1.8 Nikon lens. I bought it because I was excited about the low light opportunities it would give me. However, last night I took it out around a small city that I live in. I discovered it opens up many more opportunities for creativity than just the ability to shoot in low light. First, obviously is shooting at low apertures can help blur out distracting back ground details. The more important thing it forces me to do is get up closer to my subject. When shooting pictures of people, for instance, it forces me to have conversations and truly understand the person. This, in turn, allows me to create a more true to life portrait as I can create something that reflects the true "them" rather than my own preconceptions on who they are. While there certainly is some distortion in these wider primes, it is easily fixable in post processing, and the more true to life photos are more than worth the extra time spent on my photos.
