Diaphragm

A seven blade diaphragm from a Nikon 50mm f/1.8 AF D lens.

The unmitigating rain of today was enough to drive everyone indoors. While I haven't had time to find a model to develop my portrait skills it still seemed appropriate to do some artificial light still life. I started by trying to eliminate the reflections from the front element of the lens but at the end of the day decided to embrace them (having failed miserably to exclude them from the image and still get sufficient light on the blades).