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Lit or lighted?

Is something backlit or backlighted (adjective)?
Which is correct? Verb, past tense: I backlit the plant before I shot it.
Or: I backlighted the plant, etc.
"The plant was lit from above" is probably wrong, but sounds less clunky
than "the plant was lighted from above."
 
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Debra Lee Baldwin
Garden Photojournalist
Author, Designing with Succulents (Timber Press, 2007)
Succulent Container Gardens (Spring, 2010)
www.debraleebaldwin.com <http://www.debraleebaldwin.com/> 
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