Southdown Studio - Studios - Brighton

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Southdown Studio

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Southdown Studio
Unit 2 Fairway Business Centre,
Westergate Road,
BRIGHTON,
BN2 4JZ
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Rating of 4.2  4.2 out of 5 - 21 reviews
www.southdownstudio.co.uk


Company Profile

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Southdown Studio is a fast growing photographic studio, offering portrait, portfolio and product photography services to a wide variety of clients throughout Brighton, Sussex and the South East of England. The studio, which is based in Brighton, was established in 2004 by freelance photographer Jon Silver, who has many years of experience in the Photography profession.

Southdown Studio is a member of the SWPP (Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers) and BPPA (British Professional Photographers Association), ensuring the highest of professional standards. The studio provides families, individuals and businesses with a wide range of professional photography services and has a suite of modern facilities and equipment within a comfortable, relaxed and modern studio environment. The expert staff help clients to relax and look their best. The service is intended to delight clients with truly beautiful photo that they will be entirely happy with every time.


Mention Freeindex and get double prints with all shoots until Feb 2010!
Offer Expires : 28 February 2010


Southdown Studio is a member of the following organisations

Society of Wedding and Portrait PhotographersSociety of Wedding and Portrait Photographers
 


Hours of Business

Southdown Studio are open for business from 9:00 to 8:00 every day of the week.


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Customer Reviews

21 Customer Reviews
20 positive reviews20 Positive1 negative reviews1 Negative
Value for Money : Rating of 3.9 (3.9)
Customer Service : Rating of 4.4 (4.4)
Quality : Rating of 4.3 (4.3)
 
Rating of 4.3
4.3 out of 5
I booked a boudoir shoot for me as a birthday present for hubby. Jon was very friendly on the phone and explained how the shoot would work and what to expect. His website is excellent too. On the day of the shoot, Jon showed us some of his work and pictures of similar shoots to give us some ideas. We started the shoot in the clothes I was wearing (there was also a private area to change later). Jon had really interesting ideas for poses and I was not uncomfortable at all (except near the end when I was frankly knackered). The studio was cosy and not pristine or intimidating. The photo output was very good and Jon was professional throughout. Recommended.
Fiona Dumelow - 18 Jan 2010
Rating of 4.7
4.7 out of 5
Southdown Studio has also written a review for Sylvi Du Sauzay. This is a reciprocal review
I was very happy with all my photos and would highly recommend Jon. The studio is large and modern and Jon makes you feel very relaxed which is exactly what you want from a photographer.
Sylvi Du Sauzay from Sylvi Du Sauzay - 14 Jan 2010
Rating of 4.0
4.0 out of 5
We had a studio sitting for family photos and it went well. Very friendly atmosphere to get the best from the photos. Although we wanted informal photos we could have had a little more advice in arranging ourselves to achieve a balanced picture. It was very easy to choose the photos from the web gallery and where adjustments were needed to photos the staff were extremely helpful.
Fiona Bishop - 1 Jan 2010
Rating of 3.7
3.7 out of 5
I was made to feel very relaxed and enjoyed the session. Pictures were very good too.
Susan Connelly - 16 Dec 2009
Rating of 4.0
4.0 out of 5
I organised a suprise photo shoot for a few of my friends birthdays and we had a fab time felt really comfortable infront of Jon and the make up artist did a great job. They listen to our inputs and left we chose alot about what happend. Had a really good time and the pictures came out really well aswell.
Lizzie Stanger - 2 Dec 2009
Rating of 4.3
4.3 out of 5
Have had two party sessions - one with my 11 year old daughter and the other with my 8 year old daughter. Both occasions were very successful with the girls having a great time with their friends. The photos were lovely and will hold special memories of their birthdays forever. John and Sylvie were lovely which made for a very relaxed atmosphere.
Mrs Sally Lamley - 2 Dec 2009
Rating of 4.3
4.3 out of 5
Jon Silver provided excellent one-to-one tuition in a friendly, enthusiastic and encouraging manner, very much focusing on what I wanted to learn. His jargon-free, practical style has helped me to understand my camera with a much greater degree of confidence than I would otherwise have had. I feel empowered to make the most of my camera, and to enjoy using it. An excellent experience.
Jon Hayes - 7 Jul 2009
Rating of 5.0
5.0 out of 5
100% professional and grest fun!!!!.
Marie Keeler - 20 Jun 2009
Rating of 1.7
1.7 out of 5
Wedding Photography

I was recommended this photographer by a friend for our wedding. I looked at her wedding picture gallery and was impressed by what I saw. When I contacted Jon Silver he said he was unable to attend our wedding himself, due to a prior engagement, but said we could have his assistant. When asked about the quality of his assistant's work he told me that a lot of the photography on his website had been done by him. I was happy with what I saw so went ahead. A few weeks before our wedding I had a call saying that he'd had to let the assistant go but that we could have another photographer instead, who was much more similar to Jon Silver's own photography. With little time left, I agreed to have him. Unfortunately when viewed later, the photography was poor, with many shots out of focus and the church interior shots dull and blurry - only 11 out of 45 were sharp, and those still had an orangey 'cast' to them. There were many other problems too, with awful wide-angle shots and no pictures of key aspects of the whole wedding (no pictures of guests arriving, or groom arriving, no pics of wedding car, flowers, etc). Friends and family who have viewed the online gallery have also commented on how 'snap-shotty' the photos are, and how disappointing.

We have written to the photographer listing our reasons for being disappointed, but have not yet heard back.
Sue Gee - 5 Jun 2009
 Company Response :
As Sue said in her rather ungenerous and unkind "revenge" review, she knew from the outset she'd be getting an assistant, not me, and I gave her the opportunity to select another wedding photographer instead at that early stage. Sadly, I was let down by the assistant who was going to cover the wedding, with only just over a week to go. Andrew stepped into the breach, met with Sue and Jon in person at their home, giving them ample opportunity to go over how they wanted the event covered.

We always warn couples getting married in church to speak to their clergy beforehand and to ensure that the photographer's way is cleared. However in this case Andrew was prevented from standing near the couple, despite Jon's own father being the clergy in question, leaving the balcony at the rear of the church the only place to go in order to get good shots without getting in the way. Despite the distance, Andrew managed to get shots of, for example, Sue giving Jon his ring, which are sharp at 100% magnification whereupon both bride and groom fill 80-90% of the screen.

Lighting conditions inside churches are always difficult. I spent a week editing Andrew's photos, and we felt that the warm lighting was a feature worth keeping. If Sue disagreed, she only had to say, and I would have made the necessary changes. In fact she has the raw originals together with all my edits, and with her knowledge of Photoshop (she's a graphic designer) she could make the appropriate colour temperature adjustment herself in seconds. The vast majority of the photos taken inside the church are sharp enough for printing at most sizes up to around 12"x8", and cover the entire ceremony.

Technical errors were made by Andrew, as indeed even I make technical errors shooting live action, but the vast majority were correctable at the editing stage, and were indeed corrected. As for the elements Sue feels are missing, the 288 selected photos from a total of 306 images captured in the three-hour booking, cover arrival at church, entrance, full ceremony, signing the register (live and posed), exit from the church, photos outside the church (formal/posed and informal reportage), meeting and greeting friends & family, kids running around enjoying themselves, closeups of the ring, and full coverage of the picnic at Box Hill.

Anybody who would like to see the photos would be welcome - I'd include one or two shots here but Freeindex doesn't allow it; what you will see is a very different body of work to the one that I, or indeed any other wedding photographer would have produced, but one which stands as a very competent and worthy coverage of a modest wedding, as always in less than ideal circumstances. They're far from mere snapshots, and if these had been my wedding photos, I should be very pleased that my wedding had been covered in such a sensitive and competent way.
Rating of 4.7
4.7 out of 5
I went to Southdown Studios for my Hen Night Party for a make over and photo session. I want to say a massive thank Jon and the two makeup artists for helping make my hen night an event I will never forget. You all made us feel so welcome and so at ease, so that we could enjoy this fantastic experience. I’ve already had a look through all the photos and they all look amazing! Thank you for making me look gorgeous for the first time ever!!!!

Karolyn Nash - 10 Sep 2008
 


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