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About
Eva |
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Thank
you for visiting my website and for your interests in
Frennet Studio's photography services. My name is Eva
Frenzel and I am one-man show behind the Frennet Studio's
Photography. |
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Many of my clients always ask,
where does the Frennet Studio name come from. My husband
Pierre, created our private website years ago and he
actually came with the idea. FREN stands for Frenzel and
NET for the net. |
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I come originally from Slovakia (former Czechoslovakia), my husband
Pierre, who is German has been relocated to South
Carolina in 2007, this is how
Fountain Inn became our home and home for our two
children Franka (12 years) and Henrik aka Henni
(10 years) and how USA became my adopted country in
2018. |
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Following my family tradition and
passion, I started making photos at the age of 7, when I got my first film camera.
I cherished the moments to sit in my dad's darkroom and
assist him with developing his photos. My dad learned
everything from his dad and my granddad who made photos
in WW II while flying. |
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If I could, I would be making photos 24/7 and when I am
behind my lenses there is no time feeling for me. While
attending any events, I see everywhere the "MUST
CAPTURED MOMENTS" and mostly I had to make comprise with
my family to leave my lenses and cameras at home. After
one historic rocket launch and not captured photos, I
told myself never to leave our house without my photo
suitcase and tripod. |
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Additional to my other academic degrees, in 2011 I graduated from the New York Institute of
Photography. |
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Next to my passion for photography, I love spending time
with my family,
traveling, swimming, cycling, running, skiing,
hiking, tennis, windsurfing, kayaking, camping, and
reading. |
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Two of many of my life mottos are; |
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"Either you give your 100%, or do not do it
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"Enjoy every moment in your life." |
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Portraits |
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During the portraiture photo session, in studio, on
location, or at your home, I like your valuable time to
be spent as fun and family/couple bounding, listening to
your favorite music. |
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My goal is always to capture the true personality of each of
my client and one of the mottos is; "JUST BE YOURSELF".
Everybody is beautiful and the key for excellent portraiture is
the proper posing, lighting and clothing. Recommend to
use just plain colors and no patterns, for family
sessions, I love the same color or mixed two colors as
it creates beutiful uniformity and togetherness feeling
in the photos.
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Family photo session should a
positive experience for everyone and foremost for the
little ones. From my past experience the best photos of
the "babies" are always made when I just let them play
around and when they do not even notice that they are
being photographed. |
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Apropos "babies", just last week during a family photo
session, I called a 5 year old client Baby, he just told
me; "I am not a baby any more, I am five!" Even if the
little ones become 18 years and I am making their senior
photos or even engagement photos, they always stay
babies for me and have special place in my heart and I
have them in mind, exactly as I first met them. |
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I am
always amazed after seeing my clients and my little
clients after one year, how much they have changed and
how much they grew and always wish to slow down the
time. |
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Before each photo session, I would like to find out more
about you and your family - age of kids, interests,
favorite colors. I want to make sure that I have the right
props and colors ready and that we go with the right
theme which best expresses your family in the photos.
Whether you prefer on location photo session; urban or
natural, or at your home. I always recommend for
the family photo session, from newborn till 3-4 years
old to schedule it at your home. Your babies feel the
most comfortable at your home in their safe environment,
you do not have to hustle to be somewhere else and I am
able to capture the real personality of the little ones. |
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During the sessions I always do traditional and formal
poses at first and then I let creative side play. I
always make a joke that I should start making notes
before each session because while downloading your
photos, I notice that I did took this or that pose that
I had carefully planned ahead to make through the
session.
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When on location, I use the available light to create
this magical feeling in your photos and I love to
express the love and strong emotional bond within
family. I always want to see so called "hand
connection".
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Please read the Frennet Studio's
Tips and my
recommendations for portraits. |
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Light |
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Light is my paint and I try to avoid to schedule
portrait session through the midday, unless an event.
The hard light outside creates unpleasant facial shadows
and from photographic/technical point of view there is a
high contrast scene, to simplify from 10am till 4pm on
the sunny day are the worth light conditions for
portraiture. Ideal, and what each photographer ask for
are the overcast days. Clouds create so called softbox. |
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There are either morning sessions around 8am or late
afternoon sessions around 5pm (summer time) available.
From experience, I prefer the morning sessions, as
clients are not tired from the whole day working or
running the errands, and the biggest advantage is, at
around 9:00am my favorite locations, like Cedar Falls
Park or Fountain Inn Downtown, are not crowded,
and we have the whole place just for ourselves and
foremost we have our privacy. |
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In studio or at your home, I am working with strobe and continuous light
(softboxes and umbrellas), gels, colorful lights. On
location, I am using available light, reflector, and
on-camera flash. |
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Weddings and Events |
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For wedding and event coverage I like to scout the
location 24 hours prior, at the exact time as the
wedding ceremony or event is happing, to see the light conditions.
As it is with weddings and events, there is just this
one opportunity to capture this unique moment right with
your camera that will never ever happen again. |
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I have portable strobe and lights, backdrops, and there
is no problem to set up a studio at any location, indoor
or outdoor. |
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Whether wedding, family reunion or other event, you
invested so much energy and planned every detail with love
and passion for your event or big day and you want to
have the outcome of your effort captured and just enjoy
the moment and later in years to share these memories
with your children, grandchildren and other generations. |
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I always say to my clients febore the wedding, this is
YOUR BIG DAY, THE DAY JUST ABOUT THE BRIDE AND GROOM and
as a photographer, I will be with you the whole time.
Only exception is the ceremony, when I use the long lens
not to disturb this sacred moment. |
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Please read the Frennet Studio's
Tips for weddings. |
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Developing Your
Photos |
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I am making photos in the RAW format and all your photos are
digitally developed. I would compare it to the film
developing, just with the difference that nowadays are
photos developed in the digital darkroom. Depending on
season, your photos and photo package (Photo DVD/USB
Stick with all digital images and Copyright Release
Form, plus few print outs - now I spoiled the surprise) should be
developed, edited and ready within 10 working
days. I always send first sneak peek photos within 24-48
hours to my clients, mostly per private Facebook message
as I do not have to resize the files and I am able to
send the photos in high resolution. |
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Please read the Frennet Studio's
Tips for photo
printing. |
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Style |
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I am a traditionalist and try to avoid manipulating the
photos with my graphic software. My principle here is influenced by my film era experience; "Get it right in
the camera." So probably that is why it takes
sometimes a little longer to set manually the exposure right to achieve the right
measurement and effect that I want to create with my
"paint brush", my DSLR camera. |
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My style I would range somewhere between traditional,
artistic and in case of events and weddings photojournalistic. |
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Let my
previous work and few samples from my portofolio speak
for itself, as each photographer and artist has her/his
style and see the world through the different eyes and
from other perspective. |
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I would
end this Introduction Page/About Page with the following
definition; "Photography is painting with light."
and I cannot
wait to meet you soon and paint those special moments
for you with light using my lenses and cameras as my
paint brush that will turn into your memories tomorrow
which you and your family will treasure forever. |
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