Isolating Subjects
Hello beautiful photographers! Owl Eye here for your weekly wrap-up of wonderful happenings in the One More Stop collective. As I perused the #Gallery this week, a trend emerged to me: Isolating Subjects.
While we all take care to find wonderful places to photograph, we are also working on storytelling with powerful subjects in our frames. Subjects add life to our images and help the narrative being told. From human subjects to natural or architectural center points, a great subject adds power to our photography.
The idea of isolating subjects will come into play with the upcoming Daido Royale Part 2 collaboration. Find more information below in the Community Collaborations section.
This week’s #Gallery update is devoted to the strength of isolating subjects.
Gallery Gems
The One More Stop gallery is a great place to showcase your work. A low-pressure channel allowing you to upload a set of photos to share with the community or ask for critiques and feedback.
Ezo brings us an energetic stairwell photo with the subject in motion. As hinted to in the title, this image is in honor of the style of Daido Moriyama for the OMS Challenge: Daido Royale Part 2. Ezo captures the energy and movement of people going about their daily business by isolating the subject through long shutter speed motion blur.
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Hot Pink Bulb treats us this week with the “London Look” while venturing into and deconstructing the Daido style as well. In this photo they have captured the essence of human subjects through silhouettes against a bright wall leading off into the distance. The intent of are-bure-boke is alive in this photo as the subjects are masked out of recognition and supplanted in with shadow.
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Mymmy isolates a single human and dog subject in the opening of the tunnel passage way on a dark alleyway at night. In the foreground we are told of our location in the city streets and the time of day. In the background we have our subject and dog not only framed in by the arched opening of the pathway but also silhouetted against the bright lights of the shops on the neighboring street. This photo tells the time and city location while also capturing the depth of multiple avenues, businesses and spaces.
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The story is told as dawn breaks on a cold land. The sun is playing with the mist from the frozen ground. The subjects are isolated on the path both in physical space of being on the pavement together, but also in silhouette from the sun ahead of the them. We get a feel for the location, the open fields and hills, the trees watching over the pathway and signposts. All this scenery stands still as our subjects move through the world.
Eeenmachine brings us a series of photos on receipt paper in this gallery “receipt of rain”. These lights are the focal point and subject of the photo. Minimal design of the lights, simple placement of them side by side, wonderful framing of the photo around these three lights, and great process of printing on a simple medium, receipt paper.
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Edison shows us that a subject does not have to be a standalone object or person with this photo of a textured wall. Sometimes a subject is the pattern of design. Isolated from the patterns of the single dark rectangles to the left and the right stands the three dark rectangles in the middle with surrounding white tiles. These three belong together in their set and Edison has captured that for us here.
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Occasionally our subject is an entire space isolated against the backdrop of the landscape. Big dogg has captured this essence in the photo of a pier from the gallery “Stormy Days photos”. The pier stands alone on top of the sea, in front of the sky. Further isolating it from the foreground and background with long shutter creating silky motion in the water and clouds. This motion stands in stark contrast to the stillness of the pier and separates it as a place of strength and perseverance.
As stated in the gallery, devanopolis didn’t stage this shot. No lights were brought in to paint the exposure. This is simply a still frame of a typewriter on a desk in their home, showing us the possibilities of our everyday environments. All the material things in our lives exist in their own world where they sit, and possible photos are always at the ready to capture them living their best lives just as any other human subject.
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Community Collaborations
The Daido Royale Part 2 – On Coolpix Now and Never Again
Managed by Hot Pink Bulb
Daido Moriyama, Japanese street photographer, was an influential part of the punk movement in photography through the 1970s in Japan. Known for his are-bure-boke (rough, blurred, out-of-focus) black-and-white style, Daido showed that great emotional photography can be made with cheap point-and-shoot cameras and with settings that push well outside the bounds of what traditional photography claims to be proper. Grainy, blurry, spur-of-the-moment street style found Daido a winning style that we are excited to experiment with in this year’s Daido Royale Part 2.
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The Fortnight Challenge
Fun, bi-weekly challenges for the community!
Managed by blue squares and deathclamfive
Our bi-weekly challenge continues with a new theme, “Your Song.” We encourage you to choose a song that will tell a story through the photos you post. Read more about this theme:
The OMS Zine Gallery
Calling all members to contribute to the official OMS Zine! We’re currently taking submissions of photos for the new OMS Zine. Stop by the Best of the Gallery channel and submit your photos or other photos you feel belong in the zine. We’re currently accepting any photos that were posted from December 2023 to February 2024. Submit your photos today!
One More Stop on Discord
If you’re not part of the One More Stop discord server click the link below to join. We’re always looking for photographers to add to our collective no matter your skill level or type of photography!
