Southdown Studio Blog

If you’re stuck for something special to give your mum for mothers day, we can help. How about a Gift Voucher for a makeover or family portrait shoot? Or you can choose your budget & leave it to mum to decide how she’d like to use it.
Give us a call on 01273 358283 for full details. We can take all major cards & dispatch vouchers for next day delivery or collection.

Lots of people seem to like to get portrait photographs taken of themselves and their families in the lead-up to Christmas. Some people do it because the only time they manage to get the family all together in one place is around Christmas time. Others like to give their Mum & Dad or grandparents a nice portrait of the kids. Whatever your reason for wanting Christmas Portrait photos, Southdown Studio in Brighton serves the whole of Sussex and can offer a wide variety of portrait photography packages to suit everyone, including photoshoots in the studio or at home, makeover photoshoots, and items such as loose prints, framed prints, canvas prints and photo books. We offer gift vouchers for portrait shoots too, or indeed any of our services, which also make perfect Christmas presents.

Full details at www.southdownstudio.co.uk/portraits.aspx

Southdown Studio offers a great many photographic services, so we tend to break our web site into sections covering broad photography topics. If your business needs photography for advertising, marketing, food, public relations, web site headshots & portraits, product shots, pack shots or catalogue photos, we can provide an economical, cost-effective solution for you. Specialities include food, jewellery, business portraits, product catalogues and corporate brochures. In conjunction with our sister companies we can even provide full-service e-commerce web sites with photography, web design, copy writing and hosting.

Take a proper look at Southdown Studio’s Commercial Photography Web Site, including a variety of photo galleries.

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…)