{"id":2494,"date":"2012-08-30T17:42:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T21:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2012-08-30T17:48:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T21:48:27","slug":"bugshot2012-photos-backlit-green-lynx-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/30\/bugshot2012-photos-backlit-green-lynx-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"#BugShot2012 Photos &#8211; Backlit Green Lynx Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"attachment_2499\" style=\"width: 441px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/30\/bugshot2012-photos-backlit-green-lynx-spider\/sunlit-green-lynx-spider-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2499\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2499\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2499\" title=\"Sunlit Green Lynx Spider\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Sunlit-Green-Lynx-Spider20120824-2.jpg\" alt=\"Green Lynx Spider Peucetia viridans Florida Backlit\" width=\"431\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Sunlit-Green-Lynx-Spider20120824-2.jpg 431w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Sunlit-Green-Lynx-Spider20120824-2-331x500.jpg 331w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Sunlit-Green-Lynx-Spider20120824-2-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Lynx Spider (Peucetia viridans) &#8212; Archbold Biological Station<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Still working on flash control, I thought I&#8217;d experiment with backlighting after seeing some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexanderwild.com\/Ants\/Making-a-Living\/The-Farming-Ants-Leafcutters\/9540449_x95GW9#!i=1978731754&amp;k=MTDZtC9&amp;lb=1&amp;s=A\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Wild&#8217;s phenomenal leafcutter ant photos<\/a>, where the detail in vegetation popped. I only have one off-camera flash however, so I looked around until I found this Green Lynx Spider (<em>Peucetia viridans<\/em>) sitting nicely while the Florida sun shone brightly in behind, highlighting the leaves like I had hoped. From there, it was a matter of getting the correct combination of shutter speed, aperture and ISO (1\/200, f14 &amp; ISO 400 in this case) to allow for the natural light to filter through the leaves, while using diffused flash to expose the spider. I&#8217;m not thrilled with the glare above the spider, and the composition isn&#8217;t great (it&#8217;s pretty heavily centered), but considering the wind was blowing the plant and the spider all over the place, I&#8217;m just happy I managed a shot that&#8217;s in focus and which somewhat recreates the scene I had envisioned! I&#8217;ll certainly be trying this trick again on a calmer day, or with a tripod and plamp around&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you want to see a much different photo of a Green Lynx Spider, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/63015743@N07\/7860563796\/in\/set-72157631229849598\/lightbox\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal Ernst&#8217;s (aka The Bug Geek) incredible portrait<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still working on flash control, I thought I&#8217;d experiment with backlighting after seeing some of Alex Wild&#8217;s phenomenal leafcutter ant photos, where the detail in vegetation popped. I only have one off-camera flash however, so I looked around until I found this Green Lynx Spider (Peucetia viridans) sitting nicely while the Florida sun shone brightly <a href='http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/30\/bugshot2012-photos-backlit-green-lynx-spider\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[388,17,62],"tags":[21,438,442,433,436,600,169],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate","category-photography","category-workshop","tag-arachnida","tag-archbold-biological-station","tag-backlighting","tag-bugshot","tag-florida","tag-photography","tag-spider","category-388-id","category-17-id","category-62-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}