How Insecure Properly Lights Black Actors. For decades, photo and video equipment was designed and tested with only white subjects in mind. Lighting darker skin tones takes a different approach than lighting pale ones. Ava Berkofsky, director of photography on HBO’s Insecure, tells Mic how her team beautifully lights the show’s black actors, and Mic reporter Xavier Harding demonstrates some of the techniques below. Good lighting benefits from teamwork involving multiple departments. According to Berkofsky, the makeup department should use a reflective moisturizer on dark faces.

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For decades, photo and video equipment was designed and tested with only white subjects in mind. Watch The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies Putlocker#. Lighting darker skin tones takes a different approach than lighting.

The lighting crew should maximize the surface area of light, and the camera crew should shape that light with a polarizing lens. Harding explains some of the racist history of photographic technology, and the marginalizing effect of treating white models as the “default” use case. Cameras didn’t have to be built to capture white skin more easily than dark skin; those deficiencies were built into the system by carefully optimizing the technology for white skin alone. As Buzz. Feed’s Syreeta Mc. Fadden writes, Kodak only introduced black- friendly film stocks after complaints from chocolate and furniture advertisers. On Priceonomics, Rosie Cima talks about how the TV industry accepted and perpetuated this bias, and how filmmakers struggled to overcome it.

At Jezebel, Dodai Stewart has explored some contemporary implications of this history, like poor lighting of minorities on high- budget shows and films, and apparently white- washed magazine photos. Because of conscious choices by the film technology industry, photographers still have to learn “special” techniques for properly shooting a vast portion of the population. Even in film school, Berkovsky tells Mic, she wasn’t taught how to film nonwhite people. Watch Ace In The Hole Online on this page.

Digital photography has provided a lot of solutions, but as Buzz. Feed’s Mc. Fadden explains (and MIT Media Lab’s Joy Buolamwini further explores), it inherited a lot of white- skin biases. So Insecure’s Berkovsky has a suggestion for dark- skinned people grabbing a selfie: Stand by some soft light and turn three- quarters toward it. Because looking great on camera isn’t just for TV stars and white people.

Meet the miracle baby boy born at 2. WEEKSOne of Britain's most premature babies has defied the odds after surviving being born at just 2. Austin Douglas weighed the same as half a bag of sugar when he arrived 1.

March 3. 1. Doctors told his parents Helen, 3. Rhys, 2. 5, there was very little chance their son would survive after he was born smaller than his mother's palm. Austin's skin was so thin his organs were visible and the holes in his ears had not yet formed.

Yet after weeks of specialist care at Birmingham Children's Hospital the youngster is recovering well and set to finally go home on his original due date next month. Current abortions in the UK allow the procedures to be carried out before the 2. Last year, the Royal College of Midwives argued for women in the UK to be allowed an abortion at any point during pregnancy. A premature baby has defied the odds by surviving being born at 2. Austin Douglas weighed the same as half a bag of sugar when he arrived 1. His parents Helen, 3.

Rhys, 2. 5 (pictured), were told Austin had little chance of surviving ABORTION TIME LIMITMost abortions in England, Wales and Scotland are carried out before 2. They can be carried out after 2. Yet last year, the Royal College of Midwives (RCM's) argued for women to be allowed to abort at any point without facing criminal sanctions. Critics fear such a radical change in the law will lead to terminations for the inappropriate reasons, including being the 'wrong' sex. The RCM's campaign came after a 2. Helen was rushed to Leicester General Hospital when she got severe stomach pains and heavy bleeding just over halfway through her pregnancy. Doctors told her she was fully dilated and there was nothing they could do to stop the birth.

Helen, a catering assistant, said: 'He's been fighting since day one.'We were asked if we wanted medical assistance for him, given how premature he was.'I told doctors that if he came out breathing, I wanted them to do everything they could and they did.'He was translucent and we could see his organs through his skin. She said: 'His ears hadn't fully developed and neither had his lungs.'The medical staff whisked him away and put him in an incubator while they worked on him beside my bed.'It was terrifying but I knew he needed intervention.'Helen was taken to hospital when she got severe pains around halfway through her pregnancy.

Doctors told her she was fully dilated and there was nothing they could do to stop the birth  Born with translucent skin, Austin was immediately whisked away to a nearby incubator Austin was taken to Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, where he received care for seven weeks. RISKS OF A VERY PREMATURE BABY A premature baby is one born before 3. Before 2. 8 weeks is 'extremely preterm'. The cause is often unknown. Infection, placental problems and genetics may raise the risk. If extremely preterm, the baby will be unable to breath properly as their lungs will be undeveloped.

They will need to be kept very warm and given specialist nutrition to help them grow. At this time, they are at a high risk for infection and low blood pressure. There is also a risk of brain injury. Source: Tommy's  Austin was later taken to Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, where he received care for seven weeks. Doctors warned Austin's parents it was touch- and- go after he twice contracted a lung infection, but he pulled through.

He has recently been moved to Leicester Royal Infirmary and is doing well. Austin's parents are determined to bring their son home on July 2. Helen said: 'He has grown a lot, I have to hold him with two hands now and he is bigger than my husband's hand.'His heart beat is strong and breathing on his own gets better and longer every day.'We have to take each day at a time but I've never prayed so much in my life since he came into the world.' Doctors warned it was touch- and- go after Austin contracted a lung infection twice in hospital. Austin has recently been moved to Leicester Royal Infirmary and is recovering well so far. Helen described Austin as 'a miracle twice over' after she was told she could not have children. Helen's illness, known as polycystic ovary syndrome, puts her at risk of an early menopause.

Austin's parents hope to take him home on his due date as he is recovering well in hospital Yet doctors have warned Austin still has a long way to go (pictured with his father Rhys, 2. Helen has polycystic ovary syndrome and has described Austin as a 'miracle twice over' after she was previously told she would never be able to have children.

She said: 'I was told years ago that I would probably have an early menopause and children were off the agenda, so Austin has been a little miracle from the very beginning.'He is a miracle twice over.'When I found out I was pregnant, I was ecstatic.'I love him so much and I'm so grateful for all the care he's had.'Jonathan Cusack, consultant neonatologist at Leicester's Hospitals, said: 'We are pleased with how well Austin is doing at present given how premature he was at birth - he has clearly shown he is a fighter.'However he remains on a lot of support and still has a long way to go.' Helen says Austin has grown a lot quickly and now needs holding with two hands. She added that his heart is strong and his breathing gets better and longer every day. Although they are taking it day by day, Helen says they are praying hard for Austin's recovery. Helen told doctors to do everything they could to help him live when he was born breathing.