Bruce, thanks for your response. Not sure what to add to help decipher “making the most of” in the context of photographing darker skin tones…..I am racking my brain as to what else it could mean.
I guess lowering the gamma is the best of the options I have as there will be many different skin tones in the scenes. Lighting is not really an option for the majority of the production as its mostly verite. Gamma tweaks and finger crossing that there will be adequate pools of light may be the order of the day.