Southdown Studio Weblog

My name is Lucia - I’m aged 16 and I live in Brighton. This week I’m doing photography work experience with Jon Silver at Southdown Studio. I get to spend my week here with Jon, asking silly questions, eating left over Chinese and taking a few photos every once in a while!

This place is immense, as long as Jon stops nagging me to step in front of the camera.

I’d definitely recommend this place to everyone, customers and work experience students… I don’t want to leave on friday!

Thanks to Jon & co for everything! I’ve really enjoyed it so far.

Byeee xxxx

Hello, this is Ellie, Ella and Jaz.

We’re doing work experience at Southdown Studios for the week. And so far it’s been GREAT! (more…)

Here at Southdown Studio we place enormous importance on education, and we’re just about the only photographic studio or photographers in the Brighton & Sussex areas who offer placements to school work experience students. So far we’ve played host to students from loads of different schools around the area, including Hattie, Alice, Adam, Alice, Charlotte, Sam, Sophia… and this week, it’s the turn of three students from Cardinal Newman School - Ellie, Ella and Jaz. So far they’ve been lovely, and they seem to be enjoying their week. Hopefully they’ll write about their experiences here…

If you’re considering modelling as a career or just a fun hobby, it’s important to know what it all entails. Many people think modelling is just standing in front of a camera looking pretty (or manly) and having your photo taken, but to be a good model there’s so much more to it. Good models are worth more because there are simply so many people (especially girls) wanting to be models; so to be competitive you need to have better skills than anyone else.

So what are these modelling skills? (more…)

Women want to feel beautiful. That’s different from being beautiful, looking beautiful or being seen as beautiful. It’s also different from feeling, looking or being seen as “sexy”. Feeling beautiful is something that comes very much from within.

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If you want to brush up your photographic knowledge or camera skills, and you can travel to the vicinity of Brighton, East Sussex, UK… I may be able to help. (more…)

If you’re one of the many professional photographers who have no studio of their own, or indeed an amateur who’d sometimes like to use a studio for family or model shoots, then Southdown Studio Hire may be just what you’re looking for. (more…)

Blokes and Christmas - what a terrible combination that makes. I’m awful at buying presents for my loves ones, especially my girlfriend, and I’m sure I’m not alone. (more…)

Brighton Pride 2007 was a fabulous event for both the gay and straight people of Brighton. For once the sun was shining, and apart from some strange people protesting about something or other, it was all as friendly and exuberant as usual. Southdown Studio had two photographers there covering the event - see the photos here.

There are previous years’ photos still up on display too - check out the Brighton Pride 2005 gallery and even the Brighton Pride 2003 gallery.

My old freelance photographer’s insurance from E&L (Equine & Livestock - so which one am I?) wouldn’t cover the public liability and studio contents, so I decided to switch. I chose Morgan Richardson. I now wish I hadn’t.

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