LDS Tabernacle, part 2

April 3, 2007

The Tabernacle was where, historically, the LDS Church’s most important meetings were held. Every church leader since Brigham Young had stood at the Tabernacle’s pulpit to address the church’s followers. At the end of this session, LDS President Gordon B. Hinckley was to dedicate the renovated building.

Obviously that was the story of the day. The man and the building. That’s the shot I was looking for. After I had made a few other angles I moved to a position in the very back row of the Tabernacle to have a good view of Hinckley’s talk and dedicatory prayer, showing him in relation to the building (especially the immediately recognizable organ).

In doing this, I was giving up any shot where you could see Hinckley clearly. There would be no close-ups from the back of the hall. I would simply be too far away for that. So this resulting image would be more of a symbolic image of the man dwarfed by the massive organ. It was a risk to take, but I had a closer shot of Hinckley when he walked into the meeting.

As he spoke about the Tabernacle, Hinckley put his hands out and I knew I had my shot. Back at the paper, Tribune Design Director Colin Smith put the photo large on the front page. I thought it looked great. Here is our coverage from that day; click on an image to see it bigger:

This post first appeared here.

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