#BehindTheShot with #CanonExplorerOfLight @ricksammonphotography: “Photographing in the rain forest is a challenge. It’s very hot and humid and . . . often raining. Finding and photographing subjects, hidden by leaves and surrounded by branches, is another challenge. What’s more, it’s often dark, even on sunny days, under the canopy of the tall trees and thick vines – and the subjects are usually back lit. And let’s not forget the fire ants, mosquitos and venomous snakes. I made this photograph in the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica, called by National Geographic the most biological intense places on the planet. One of my goals on a recent trip was to make a natural-light photograph of one of the rain forest’s coolest critters – the red eye tree frog. Getting down on eye-level, watching the background, and seeing eye-to-eye and shooting eye-to-eye, I made my shot (exposing for the highlights) – just before a torrential downpour!” Camera: #Canon EOS R
Lens: EF 50mm f/2.5 Compact Macro
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 800
Shutter Speed: 1/160 sec
Ciao, Nihon.