My Technically Media colleagues Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and I kept running into situations where we needed headshots or team photos. Even as a startup, for conferences and speaking engagements, we’d send out photos taken by friends or shots that had landed on Facebook and we realized we needed something a bit more formal. [...]

All photos by Neal Santos while preparing for a Technically Philly Technology Leaders Breakfast photo shoot back in March. See the other team photos here. Below is one of the photos from the next morning’s leaders breakfast, which Number of Views:215

Photographer Colin Lenton, whom I came to know during our college newspaper days, and a few of his colleagues have rented out beautiful space in the Frankford neighborhood and have made it into a unique studio space. This weekend, Philadelphia Productions, what they call themselves, held a great grand opening party. They had a camera [...]

After my first asset analysis joining Back on My Feet in January, it was beyond the pale of question that we needed a camera that could get our organization content — photos and video — up and moving quickly. I was looking for a camera that was the following: More durable than the personal camera [...]

Earlier this month, I went on a ride-along with the West Frankford Town Watch in lower Northeast Philadelphia. For the love of hyperlocal journalism and community coverage, I put together a 2,500 word profile of the organization, with a handful of photos of mine. It was good to remember that I got into this whole [...]

My first clip for the Fishtown Spirit ran in last Thursday’s issue, and my second ran yesterday. Keith Angelitis just started a fire in the front room of his Frankford Avenue studio. He has a jacket on and a ball cap pulled over his ruffled brown hair. Big front windows welcome the sunlight that pours [...]

Last month, Alex Irwin, a good friend and a very hip arts blogger and Philadelphia music writer, posted that he gave over publishing rights of two of his photos to an online travel guide for Seattle, where he was visiting his girlfriend when snapped the pictures. Wrong move, I say. Let me tell you why. [...]

Where do you store your photos online? I’ve used at least five different services and currently have three active accounts and can’t say I’m sold on any of them. Read my thoughts and share your own. Am I missing out on the go-to place to store, save and share photographs? Number of Views:42

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Google announced its hosting of 10 million Time-Life photographs last month. The Google Life-magazine archive is a sign of more to come, but is pretty cool already. I’ve chosen five of the better images I found by checking “Philadelphia source: Life” in a Google image search. (hat tip to 10,000 words) Right now, there are [...]