DAY 219 PHOTO CHALLENGE 8-6-12: Day 219 photo challenge is backlight. Backlighting refers to lighting in a photograph that comes from behind an object. Because backlighting requires a...

aleone63 Loc: Some place in Wisconsin

Day 219 photo challenge is backlight. Backlighting refers to lighting in a photograph that comes from behind an object. Because backlighting requires a subtle manipulation of a scenes light, photographers consider it a more advanced technique to master. When effectively implemented in a scene, however, backlighting can enhance the finer details of an object (such as the tiny hairs on bug) or a scenes more delicate features (such as the dust particles or drops of mist in a given background).

Here are a few examples...

Have fun....

sunlight thru birch bark

sun thru bark

sun thru clouds and windmill

light thru a window

light from behind the leaves

sunset makes a great backlight for the bay

the light from behind the ring cast a shadow

woodsliv Loc: Tehachapi,CA

Here's a few

aleone63 Loc: Some place in Wisconsin

woodsliv wrote:

Here's a few

I love the wind turbines... The moon works well.

laskalass Loc: Land of the Midnight Sun

Dont think these are back lit...but if you would like to see the windsurfers I took pics of here is the link...

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-56131-1.html

Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA

Back-lighted male Monarch (Danaus plexippus) butterfly sipping nectar.
Approximately 1:4 magnification (1/4 life-size).

Photographed at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum Butterfly Pavilion.

Hand-held Nikon D5000 at ISO 400, with Nikkor 105G lens, 1/200-sec at f/16, full sun & Nikon SB-600 speedlight with O-Flash 3/4-circle Fresnel prism attachment.

laskalass Loc: Land of the Midnight Sun

Really well done....lovely!

Nikonian72 wrote:

Back-lighted male Monarch (Danaus plexippus) butterfly sipping nectar.
Approximately 1:4 magnification (1/4 life-size).

Photographed at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum Butterfly Pavilion.

Hand-held Nikon D5000 at ISO 400, with Nikkor 105G lens, 1/200-sec at f/16, full sun & Nikon SB-600 speedlight with O-Flash 3/4-circle Fresnel prism attachment.

laskalass Loc: Land of the Midnight Sun

beautiful examples....love the ring and the leaves are so pretty!

aleone63 wrote:

Day 219 photo challenge is backlight. Backlighting... (show quote)

Smokenmirrorss Loc: WV

aleone63 wrote:

Day 219 photo challenge is backlight. Backlighting... (show quote)

The spidery spindle and the ring are my favorites. Here's one I got last week looking up and another a couple weeks ago at camp.

DayStar

Cautious Bucky

Roadrunner Loc: Quebec, Canada

These were taken this past weekend. This is one heck of a coutnry festival, The Corn Festival and Janice and Smoke, I could easily see you there. At the Saloon tent every evening they had line dancing and I sat there for an hour and never saw the same dance twice. The reason I just sat there is that I love country music and it takes all I can muster up to do one slow dance per evening. This is corn country ... I mea nthe fields are wallpapered with corn and extend through many villages and in the next town over, it is apple orchards...

I tried but the bubbles just wouldn't leave.....WYSIWYG

Hard cider
Hard cider...

Roadrunner Loc: Quebec, Canada

Verynice examples already today. Those Monarchs are sweet!

jfantasma

I missed a whole day of posts because I took a walk with my daughter and collected some bugs to photograph. No bugs were harmed during the creation of these picture and have been released back into the wild. I sedated them to get these shots and they are perfectly fine now in the flower garden.

Wonderful shot so far but the day is exremely young yet. (4:45a.m. here in Colorado)

Backlit Dragon Fly

Carpet Moth

jfantasma

Smokenmirrorss wrote:

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Love those sun rays

jfantasma

Nikonian72 wrote:

Back-lighted male Monarch (Danaus plexippus) butterfly sipping nectar.
Approximately 1:4 magnification (1/4 life-size).

Photographed at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum Butterfly Pavilion.

Hand-held Nikon D5000 at ISO 400, with Nikkor 105G lens, 1/200-sec at f/16, full sun & Nikon SB-600 speedlight with O-Flash 3/4-circle Fresnel prism attachment.

Excellent shots

Smokenmirrorss Loc: WV

jfantasma wrote:

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Thanks! Glad I looked up.

Roadrunner Loc: Quebec, Canada

Is this backlight? I think so. I used the sun's reflection on the trees in the background to bring out the apples in the foreground