After Instagram had been sold to Facebook for a healthy $1billion, cries of joy were not heard from every corner and there was a proportional amount of people that even gave a despairing moan. We here at Photogenie were the ones doing the moaning. Our groans all resounded the same issue that photographer Steve Dowling raised at the time; has Instagram sparked a wave of generic retro looking snaps? The answer is yes. It seems as though Instagram is Read more [...]
Instagram: death of originality 
Girls on Film Girls on Film
Photographer of the week: Lizzie Strupat Photographer of the Week: Lizzie Strupat
Behind the Scenes 
Fish Bowl 
Nikon in Space 
Photographer of the week: Mick Street
Photogenie Vacation 
Girls on Film
Feel free to have this playing in the background to add to the reading of this post Baz Luhrman was right; beauty magazines really do make you feel ugly. And this was said in 1999 before the big boom of digital photography and photo manipulation. Has it always been this way though? Must a beauty magazine and its inflicted insecurity come hand in hand? Well yes, the idea of supreme beauty has always been the aim of magazine editors, with the desired styles and looks of featured women to be admired Read more [...]
Photographer of the week: Lizzie Strupat
Born and raised in California, 21 year old Lizzie Strupat has been living in London for two years now, studying fashion photography at London College of Fashion. Here Photogenie finds out how Lizzie first became taken by photography and how her work back home in CA differs from her work in London. I got a camera around when I was 16 so then I started taking pointless photos. I guess when I really started trying was a year later when I got onto my high school’s Read more [...]
Behind the Scenes
Earlier this year Photogenie took part in small project at Bournemouth Arts Uni where a short film was planned shot and edited over the course of 10 weeks, covering each element of independent film making and staying true to industry situations. Industry practices such as pitching ideas to ‘distribution’ panel as well as scriptwriting and storyboarding were among the activities of pre-production. Photogenie takes a brief look at behind the scenes photography and how capturing the construction is Read more [...]
Fish Bowl
One of the most interesting photographic techniques is accomplished using a fisheye lens. The ultra wide angle lens produces a strong visual distortion and creates a panoramic or hemispherical image. Getting your hands on this well crafted piece of glass isn’t easy though. With prices starting well into the mid and late hundreds for a standard Nikon fisheye lens, the chance of achieving these effects yourself is often quite a slim one. Like what many of you may choose to do, I went for the much Read more [...]
Nikon in Space
Have you ever seen a photo of an astronaut floating through space and wondered what’s behind the process of capturing that moment?Preparing a camera for the milky way is a meticulous operation of which many may forget to consider when looking a photo taken in space. After its reliable reputation in the U.S. market, Nikon was selected as a special manufacturer of 35mm cameras for NASA To develop the camera for space purposes, several issues had to be taken into account. Read more [...]
Photographer of the week: Mick Street
Mick Street is a photographer from all sorts of places, but is currently residing in the Kentish seaside town of Ramsgate. Predominantly a travel photographer, Mick has also dabbled in studio photography and web design with his current professional career being IT lead. Here he recaptures his experiences of being a travel photographer. I started working in photography for the travel industry when digital imaging was unheard of (apart from maybe the research and development department Read more [...]
Photogenie Vacation
Ahead of Photogenie’s post on travel photographer Mick Street, have a look at the recent destinations of Photogenie: The White House, Washington Read more [...]
Revival of instant film
It was a sad day when the news hit that Polaroid were ceasing production of their cameras and instant film for good. For a few years, fans of the instant photography phenomenon had their fears that the polaroid trade was dying a slow painful death and that instant film would be the first to go. After filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy and several cameras being taken out of production, along with the new kid on the block digital revolution, instant film was fighting a losing battle. That Read more [...]
