So this is it! As I announced last week, I have started my PAD project today. My first camera-lens-combination to use for one week straight is the Leica M8 + Voigtländer Nokton 50/1.5. So far, the Nokton has been my lens for portraiture and close-up shots, and I regularly used it on purpose, i.e. when I knew what I was going to shoot. Carrying the lens with my all week, I am not going to know what I will shoot, so I have to be looking out for subjects that fit the Noktons field-of-view.

Here’s my very first picture for this project, which I took on my way to work today. I had noticed this blooming bush earlier today when I went shopping with Emil, but had forgotten to take the camera with me. I took two more candidate pictures today, but this one was my favourite, so it made it to PAD #1!

PAD #1 | "Blooming bush" | Leica M8 + Nokton 50/1.5 @ f/2.4, 1/750 sec, ISO 160

I had intended to shoot this wide open, but it seems I accidentally closed the aperture down to f/2.4-ish. As this was taken at the close-focusing limit of the Nokton (0.9 metres), d-o-f is still very thin at this aperture. Also note that there is almost no vignetting, whereas at f/1.5 the lens vignettes quite noticeably. (I added some very slight vignetting in post, though.)

P.S.: I believe today’s Picture-of-the-day was the shortest ever to be sticky on the front-page! A new record!