Friday, March 20, 2015

Holli Turner - Weekly Artist Post

Ricky Rhodes






The artist shot his images at handholding speed 1/60 of a second or faster especially to stop the motion of the guys in the first image that were building the skating ramp.  I also notice in all photos the shallow depth of field, which could be anything from f 4 or larger.  Many of these photographs, though not all, were shot it appears at the same time out day.


 Rhodes started this project by visiting a Do-it-yourself skate park that his friend invited him to.  Through his photographs he was able to show the community and its surrounding environments.  He attempting and well executed displaying just how diverse the group of people that made up this community was.  By earning their trust and continually interacting with them he was able to photograph them and make several beautiful portraits.



I enjoyed viewing these photographs.  It was especially inspiring seeing our recent portrait and landscape series of photographs.  To be able to photographs such a different variety of people is nice however them all coming together for the same cause makes for a different and interesting story.  It goes from just photographs of people to a thriving community that wants somewhere for their own to be able to regularly skate and interact.

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