Monarch butterflies, photographed at a sanctuary in Mexico's Sierra Chincua mountain range. Photographed by Joel Sartore in Pdn's conservation issue.
Cindy Hernandez, a former gang member that was recently incarcerated looks to change her future in a bright way. Photographed by Adam Amengual for his series titled, "Homies".
I made the lighting decisions I used based off insight provided during lab and a little bit of trial and error. I was challenged slightly with reflections when I had first started shooting. I moved the lights around to make them more even with each other, which helped tremendously. I still noticed a slight reflection of my hand as well as my camera trap. To fix the hand Issue I used a 2 second self timer, which allowed me to moved my hand out of the frames reflection. Similarly for the camera strap, I simply tucked it behind the camera stand.