There is over & over again a sort of discrimination between light skinned actors & dark skinned actors.

"Insecure," a show led by an all black cast has quite a lot of things going for it & this includes a well-lit cast.

Ava Berkofsky, who is currently "Insecure's Director of Photography, is apparently doing something right. Discussing with Mic, she explained that when she was in film school, no one ever talked about lighting nonwhite people."There’re all these general rules about lighting people of color, like throw green light or amber light at them.

"The conventional way of doing things was that if you put the skin tones around 70 IRE. If you have got black skin, dialing it up to 50 or 70 is just going to make the rest of the image look weird."

"The trick is keeping light off the walls. If you keep it off the walls, you can expose for the faces & it still has a cinematic look."

So rather than adding more light, the skin reflects it.

The same principal works with skin, & this can be a highly effective way to shape the reflected light on an actor’s face.