West Texas Pump Jack CC Please

[Swanner Photography]

Just got my New fish eye lens in today. Its a Canon 8-15mm 4L

This is the first time to use a fish eye. Not really sure what CC I am looking for. I guess everything. I do not normally shoot landscape shots either. So please feel free to tear it apart.

Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark II

CCD Width: 6.00mm

Exposure Time: 0.0010 s (1/1000)

Aperture: f/18.0

Whitebalance: Auto

Exposure: Manual

[Hill Country Hack]

Ms Swanner,

Let me begin by saying I really don't know if the fisheye works for this image.
I get my best results shooting landscapes from f8-f11 and use Hyperfocal Distance – Photographer’s Friend unless I'm purposefully trying something different.
For me the pump jack seems underexposed and to dead center in the frame for me. It looks like you were shooting at mid day since I don't see any shadows around the jack.

Golden hours are a landscape/cityscape artist best friend.

By the way...quit hogging the clouds out there. We had some rain last week, but otherwise clear blue skies.
Keep gettin' after it.

[Swanner Photography]

Lol, We raley get rain. We are in one of the biggest drouts.

It was about 1pm when I took this shot.
I just wanted to try the fisheye lens out on the way home from getting it.

Thanks for the advice.

[Hill Country Hack]

No problems

The rain we got here pushed us to about 8 inches for the year. Wheee!

I feel your no rain pain.

[illuminatingenigma]

Way to make a chunk of rusty metal look good. Well done.

[Swanner Photography]

Thank you!!

[navcom]

My two cents worth. I think it's a great main subject but I agree that the fisheye perspective might not be appropriate for the composition. What might have worked is using your lens at the long end (15mm) and get really close to the ground...like 3 inches from the ground...looking up at it. Also, I also agree that golden hour light would really set this one off. Low horizon sunlight has a way of really making rusty objects pop.

But I understand why you went fisheye...new lens...gotta try it out. Good for you! Fisheyes can be a blast!

[Swanner Photography]

Originally Posted by navcom

My two cents worth. I think it's a great main subject but I agree that the fisheye perspective might not be appropriate for the composition. What might have worked is using your lens at the long end (15mm) and get really close to the ground...like 3 inches from the ground...looking up at it. Also, I also agree that golden hour light would really set this one off. Low horizon sunlight has a way of really making rusty objects pop.

But I understand why you went fisheye...new lens...gotta try it out. Good for you! Fisheyes can be a blast!

Yep just had to try it.

I will take it back to that pump jack and try your sugesttion. It was only about 20 miles from me.

Thanks.