02.the nothing.bkroll

This assignment proved very difficult for me. When we discussed this idea of nothingness it seemed like an interesting idea that was pretty clear. However, the more I tried to photograph 'nothing' the more I realized I was thinking about this all wrong. To me the assignment isn't about photographing nothing as I originally thought, this is impossible. If something can be defined it is clearly something, not nothing (a little double negative for you English majors). So, many times I found myself thinking that I found the nothing that I wanted to photograph then realizing that this nothing was something and failing. I had to change the way I was thinking about this. I decided to photograph objects that perhaps get overlooked as nothing...nothing important at least, or things that are not typically looked at under the microscope of photography. For instance, the first image is of carpet, the second of a wet street. Both of these images are really nothing special and lack a defined subject withing the frame. However, I think both photos offer something interesting. The wet road has a lot of high tones and low tones...and then you notice the aggregate in the road. The carpet is a uniform object made interesting with the use of depth of field (and no Eric this is not a Gaussian blur filter), it was shot with the fairly large aperture of f2.8. All that said, I am not sure if I though about this in the same way as everyone else but these are my end results...thoughts???