# What does cinematographer Ava Berkofsky say about exposure level, light quality and rules of thumb for lighting dark skin on Insecure?

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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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    },
    {
      "url": "https://slrlounge.com/ava-berkofsky-of-hbos-insecure-on-how-to-light-dark-skin",
      "note": "Mic interview article (2017): 70 IRE and film-school quotes"
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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: https://mic.com/articles/184244/keeping-insecure-lit-hbo-cinematographer-ava-berkofsky-on-properly-lighting-black-faces

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