Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM Lens Sample Pictures

It is hard to go wrong when photographing flowers as beautiful as gladiolus in late day sunlight. Nothing fancy here - just move in close and use a wide aperture.

Horse jumping Photography is the most strenuous test I gave the Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM Lens autofocus system while reviewing this lens. And it performed quite well in this test.

Multiple fireworks rockets explode in the night sky. Image brightness for fireworks photography is completely determined by the aperture setting since the rockets and explosions are never still. I sometimes use a neutral density filter when photographing fireworks to allow a wider aperture to be used (for sharper images due to less effects of diffraction being visible).

For this Delaware Falls (in Ricketts Glen State Park) picture, I used a large fern-covered rock to provide foreground interest. A CP filter was used for increased saturation/decreased reflections.
 
I've been taking the Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM Lens with me a lot - it is so small that I barely know it is there - and I've never been disappointed when I chose to use it.

A beautiful luna moth rests on a large (dead) tree trunk (stump). I actually moved the tree stump into my studio for the background of several subjects I was shooting at the time. The 40 STM Lens worked great for very loosely cropped moth pictures.

When shooting fireworks, it usually difficult to know the proper framing for the burst coming next. So, framing wide and cropping to taste later is usually my technique.

I had the Canon EF 40mm pocket lens along on my hike into Rocky Brook Falls in northern Maine. As usual, this cheap, tiny lens did a remarkable job. F/8 for 8 - an f/8 aperture for 8 seconds (with a CP filter) delivered the results you see here.

Of the 22 named waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park, Ganoga, at 94', is the tallest. And, it is one that I find challenging to create a good composition of. The colorful fall foliage was definitely helpful on this trip. A CP filter was used to cut reflections and increase saturation.

Subjects often work very well compositionally when available in a quantity of three. Three is a very good number for compositions.