BNP traveled from Shanghai to Morocco for the “Keep Reaching” campaign, the final leg of the shoot was right here in New York City with Metromotion!

The team at Metromotion was busy doing what we do best!  Hard at work on set for the rooftop build at Milk Studio and location scouting / managing for the tennis courts in urban Brooklyn.

Daylight North just received a shipment of BRAND NEW APPLIANCES which have been installed & are ready to use!

Boiling will be a breeze with the brand new RANGE

Cakes will be rising in a flash in the  brand new DUAL OVENS  (oh, & that makes it 3x OVENS if you were counting)

Lettuce will be crisp in the brand new REFRIGERATOR

Ice cream will chill out in the brand new FREEZER

Popcorn will burst with a quickness in the brand new MICROWAVE

Interested in cooking with us?  Drop us a line:  bookings@daylightstudio.com

Weather was a sunny 85 degrees each day, as the team hit the beach and open seas in an 85′ sailboat in Vieques Sound.  Metromotion provided local production support  in the form of accommodations, locations, flights, catering and the fancy-shmancy chartered sailboat (see below) for the crew of 12.  Luis Rios, senior producer with Metromotion, oversaw the project locally–where his spanish-speaking skills came in quite handy.

Check out some behind the scenes photos:

Twenty-five years later,  The Cosby Show’s strong moral values still holds true with Americans, and Essence Magazine chose to celebrate that in its current issue.  The Cosby Show, debuting in 1984, was a step in the right direction for racial equality in television.  It brought a successful and loving family to the airwaves, showing everyone that African-American families could be affluent, well-educated, caring  and go through the same issues as any other family of any color.

Members of the original show came together in  May for Essence Magazine’s  cultural section shot by photographer Garth Aikens. 

 In attendance were Cosby himself, Phylicia Rashad ( “Claire”), Keisha Knight-Pulliam ( “Rudy”), Raven-Symone (“Olivia”) and Malcolm-Jamal Warner (“Theo”).  At the studio, laughter resonated through the walls, as the cast reminisced about their time together on the award-winning sitcom.  Cosby, in rare-form entertained the staff with antics.  “We were definitely a little bit starstruck,” notes Taylor Hingston, Equipment Manager.  “I mean come on, it’s Bill Cosby.  We grew up at home with him and his family!”

As Bill Cosby left the studio you couldn’t help but think, “What happened to all of those sweaters?” 

Introducing the open-source camera, dubbed “Frankencamera“, a piece of technology where programmers can fine-tune a camera’s response to light and motion–outside of Photoshop.  Without getting too technical (algorithms, blah blah blah), this means that multiple images of a particular scene can be taken, processed to a particular exposure level and then recombined into a composite image. 

But wait, can’t you already do this on a computer?  Yeah, sure.  But in a camera… on-site?  That’s what Marc Levoy, a professor of Computer and Electrical Engineering  at Stanford University is looking to do with Frankencamera.

“Some cameras have software development kits that let you hook up a camera with a USB cable and tell it to set the exposure to this, the shutter speed to that, and take a picture, but that’s not what we’re talking about,” says Levoy. “What we’re talking about is, tell it what to do on the next microsecond  …  or fire the flash, focus a little differently and then fire the flash again — things you can’t program a commercial camera to do.”

He’s aiming to make this platform available to computational photography researchers first.  As for the rest of us normal consumers, we’ll have to wait a bit.  Essentially this technology leaves the photographer with the freedom to be completely experimental.  We’re only a couple of steps closer to making the perfect photograph in-camera.

 Hey nerds, want to know more?  See a little video of what we’re talking about?
Read the full article here:  http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/august31/levoy-opensource-camera-090109.html

We are especially super fond of the hand-crank blender margarita-maker.

Shot in Prospect Park by Andrew McCaul.  

Check out the work of Alvaro Salazar;  fashion stylist from the SEDA shoots.  For more than ten years, Alvaro has dressed top models and celebrities alike—most prominently working with Men’s Vogue magazine.  With his knack for trends and eye for detail, he could make a potato sack look like a million bucks.

His work can be found here.

Back in 2007, this soulful pianoman shot his music video “Goodbye Philadelphia” here at Daylight Studio.

Since we’re feelin’ a bit nostalgic, we figured we’d show ya the video!