I'm with John, outdoors I often shoot long when possible for glamour, especially beach. Indoors, you don't always have that potential. But really it comes down to a combination of factors for me. For the shots you referenced, I wanted to shot the background, but I still wanted compression on the girl so I split the difference. Not to mention, there was only so much room for me to back up!
But, having said that RobArtLyn really has it right. I think if you (not YOU specifically, the general all of us you) try to find absolutes, you'll short change yourself. It's like asking an artist which brush to use or what color to paint with, they all have their place. That's one of the nice things about working with primes, which I greatly prefer. I seem to learn the lens better when I have to adjust myself rather than it. It seems more organic to me somehow.
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