Workshop 6

(Subject Isolation — Far) A man scrolls on his phone Oct. 6, 2022, across from Ernie Pyle Hall on East Seventh Street. Credit: Ethan Moore
(Subject Isolation — Close) A student kills time on her phone while waiting on the W bus to arrive Oct. 6, 2022, at a bus stop on East Seventh Street. Credit: Ethan Moore
A student kills time on her phone while waiting on the W bus to arrive Oct. 6, 2022, at a bus stop on East Seventh Street. Credit: Ethan Moore
(Subject Isolation — Medium) A man lifts a collapseable table off a cart Oct. 6, 2022, while setting up for the First Thursday festival at Showalter Plaza. Credit: Ethan Moore
(Compressed Distance) A woman helps move a table into its correct place in preperation of the First Thursday festival Oct. 6, 2022, on East Seventh Street. Credit: Ethan Moore
Ryan Comfort works with two of his students duirng an in-class workshop on using telephoto lenses Oct. 6, 2022, outside the Indiana Memorial Union. Credit: Ethan Moore

I found this workshop to be a bit more challenging than some of the work we’ve done before, and I think it’s due to the physical size of the lens I was working worth. I am not used to working with something so large and I never really got used to composing with the lens before the time ran out. It was difficult to track people as they moved across the frame without setting up the monopod but I would tend to miss the scene complexity if I spent time setting up the monopod.

I was trying to avoid people’s backs as much as possible so I walked down to Showalter Plaza area to look for people setting up for First Thursdays and I also spent some time at the bus spot. Since I was having issues with people passing too quickly, I sought out places where I knew people would be for a bit.

I found the compressing distance prompt to be the most challenging of the 4 because I wanted to make sure you could tell what was behind them but since I was using a 400mm, I had to be a decent distance away to make that happen. It was hard trying to compose my shot at that focal length but I ended up liking what I came up with. I needed to have gotten the other person lifting the table in the frame as well to make this a usable picture in my opinion but I still like the way the sculpture sits behind the subject.