How to properly light the model depends on several aspects, and one of them is skin color. Insecure’s director of photography, Ava Berkofsky, makes the actors in the series look fabulous. In this 2-minute video, she shares her lessons on properly lighting the dark-skinned actors to achieve the best results. As Ava tells The Mic, when she was in film school, no one ever talked about lighting nonwhite people other than in terms of a few general rules....

I live in south Florida and spent many nights last summer chasing storms through swamps and along the beach attempting to learn to shoot lightning. I’m a simple hobbyist so please take these suggestions with a grain of salt or at face value…or whatever, you know what I mean. But I’d like to share some lightning photography tips with those who are new to this. Ok so settings usually depend on a couple factors… ambient light (dusk, evening, dark night etc), the distance you are from the storm, and the size of the lighting the storms putting down....

FiLMiC Pro has been my go to app for mobile video for the past few years. Whether I want to shoot a quick personal clip or shoot some behind the scenes footage, it mostly works great. There’s one or two issues, like drifting audio and no ability to shoot 23.976fps (it does exactly 24), but it’s still the most useful video app out there. One thing that’s a big problem common to all mobile video apps, though, is the contrast and colour typically provided by most phones sucks....

Android e iOS se acercan con cada año que pasa, pero siguen siendo muy diferentes en términos de experiencia. La interfaz de Android es más flexible y ofrece varias opciones de personalización, mientras que la de iOS es fluida pero restrictiva por naturaleza. De todos modos, no estamos aquí para discutir las ventajas y desventajas de los sistemas operativos, sino para decir que puedes disfrutar de ambas interfaces en tu dispositivo, eso sí, si eres usuario de Android....

A Turkish man recently committed a terrible crime while pretending he wanted to take some selfies. He made his pregnant wife think they were about to take some snaps on a 1,000 feet (304m) tall cliff. When he lured her to the cliff’s edge, he pushed her down straight to her death. Hakan Aysal (41) was convicted of the murder of his seven months pregnant wife Semra Aysal (32). According to the New York Post, the couple was visiting Turkey’s popular spot Butterfly Valley in Mugla in June 2018....