Hi there and welcome to SKL Photography – Creative wedding photographers based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. I’m Simon, co-owner and main photographer behind the lens.
We’re a husband and wife team, and as I write this, we have 17 years experience, having covered well over 400 weddings across the country and overseas. We run our photography businsess from our home in Morley, where we’ve lived for nearly 10 years now, along side our 2 daughters aged 7 and 10.
We started our business back in 2009, with a little push from family and friends. I carried my first serious camera everywhere, one that I’d bought before our own honeymoon back in 2006. Back then I was happy capturing photos of life in general, but I knew I had the ability to see things slightly differently, with a dramatic type of composition. Family and friends saw this and encouraged me to take my passion further.
This was basically the foundation of my own style. But I wasn’t anywhere near where I wanted to be. Yes, I loved the dramatic scenes, the moody skies, and the ambience in a beautifully lit room, but from a techincal viewpoint, I was not there. So off I went on various training courses, growing my skillset and my love for manipulating light. I even spent time down in The Cotswolds learning from fellow pros, teaching me the use of something I take with me to every wedding, and that is off camera flash.
It’s that skill, and my drive to master that skill, which sets some of our photography apart. I’m still learning now. Never afraid to push myself and boundaries to new levels.
Rebecca didn’t become part of the business until I’d covered a few weddings. During the early stages she just gave me the supportive backbone to get the business off the ground. But she soon became an absolute necessity, for us to become our creative best.
She is now an integral part of ‘Team SKL Photography’. Whilst she stands with me at every wedding we cover, helping me with more complex lighting situations/ideas, she’s now developed her own unique style as well.
It’s the combination of my dramatics and her love of candid, off the cuff photography which wins over our clients, week in, week out. Rebecca is a very laid back, almost a ‘behind the scenes’ photographer. She’s learnt the technical side to the photo taking from me, but her style is very much her own. Some of the most loved wedding photos are hers. That is testament to how she approaches the day itself. Her work is very much done in natural light too. It’s rare she ever uses flash, for anything.
So that is us in a nutshell. Two very differing styles, two completely different approaches on how we photograph the day. SKL Photography – Creative, dramatic, posed and candid wedding photographers from Leeds in West Yorkshire.
As the main photographer in our business, there was only one category that would help me reach my own personal goals. Wedding photography. It’s where the magic is. Where raw emotion, beauty and laughter are found everywhere.
I’m very much a ‘people’ person, and that, with the eye for dramatic skies, sweeping landscapes, reflections and unique composition, was just the perfect combination.
I also knew I had the personality to take on weddings, with sometimes huge gatherings of people, and handle them well. No two weddings are the same, but I have a very relaxed, ‘jokey’ type of nature, which hopefully comes across throughout the day. Rebecca, in comparison, is very quiet, and it’s why she can safely go about the day taking the photos she does without people knowing.
We both want to exceed expectations of us, what we provide as a service and who we are as people. At the end of the day, wedding photography is a very personal profession to be in. Not everyone loves our style and we get that. The world would be a boring place if we all thought and did things the same. We hope we stand out to those looking for what we do. And believe us, we always put in 100% of who we are into capturing the magic of your day, and making it memorable for the right reasons.
Anderson Lane
Morley
Leeds
LS27 0FP
