{"id":1255,"date":"2009-01-25T18:51:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T18:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2014-08-07T19:59:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T19:59:34","slug":"photo-of-the-week-49-backlit-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2009\/01\/25\/photo-of-the-week-49-backlit-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the Week 49 &#8211; Backlit Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was starting photography my Dad gave me one very good piece of advice, keep the sun at your back! The vast majority of the time this is great advice, and I pass it on to beginners when they ask me for advice. However, like all guidelines in photography, breaking them intentionally in a thought-out way can lead to great shots. I&#8217;ve never really been great at shooting back-lit subjects, it just doesn&#8217;t work for me usually, but this shot is the exception.<\/p>\n<p>I shot this back-lit Small White (Pieris rapae) butterfly in the Junior Gardens on the St. Patrick&#8217;s College Campus (AKA the NUI Maynooth South Campus) in Maynooth, Ireland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/2839519653-64d6257675-o.jpg\" alt=\"Back-lit Butterfly\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" width=\"464\" height=\"464\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/2839519653\" target=\"_blank\">on Flickr<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/2839519653\/sizes\/o\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full-Size<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Camera:<\/strong> Nikon D40<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lens:<\/strong> Nikon DX AFS 55-200mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exposure:<\/strong> 1\/400 sec<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Length:<\/strong> 200mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Ratio:<\/strong> F8<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISO:<\/strong> 200<\/li>\n<li><strong>Camera Mode:<\/strong> Aperture Priority<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exposure Bias:<\/strong> -0.67<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was starting photography my Dad gave me one very good piece of advice, keep the sun at your back! The vast majority of the time this is great advice, and I pass it on to beginners when they ask me for advice. However, like all guidelines in photography, breaking them intentionally in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[31,35,34,28],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-ireland","tag-kildare","tag-maynooth","tag-photo-of-the-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-kf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8104,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/8104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}