What does cinematographer Ava Berkofsky say about exposure level, light quality and rules of thumb for lighting dark skin on Insecure?
In a 2017 Mic interview, cinematographer Ava Berkofsky (Insecure) describes the conventional ~70 IRE skin-tone target and says raising dark skin to 50-70 IRE makes the rest of the image look wrong; she says film school did not teach lighting nonwhite people.
In a 2017 Mic interview, cinematographer Ava Berkofsky (Insecure) describes the conventional ~70 IRE skin-tone target and says raising dark skin to 50-70 IRE makes the rest of the image look wrong; she says film school did not teach lighting nonwhite people.
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- [sourced_fact] In a 2017 Mic interview, cinematographer Ava Berkofsky (Insecure) describes the conventional ~70 IRE skin-tone target and says raising dark skin to 50-70 IRE makes the rest of the image look wrong; she says film school did not teach lighting nonwhite people. · locator: Mic interview article (2017): 70 IRE and film-school quotes source
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