My name is Eunice, and my husband's name is Lance!
We met in Hungary in our first semester of Bible College, and one of the very first things he did was capture a photo of me in a sunflower field when the sun was behind me making a perfect backlit photo with just my cell phone.
I was in teen pageants and modeling agencies, while passionately journaling my life and publishing poetry. Writing and journaling was everything to me; while he was a barista owning a coffeehouse on the other side of the globe while his passion was coffee, and SLR photography. When both of our desires changed to learn more about God, we both became travelers for
Jesus! He took his camera with him, while I took my pen and journals with me.
When we met again to graduate together from College, 3 years had already passed, and I was already diagnosed with multiple autoimmune conditions not able to pick up a pen to write anymore. I was heartbroken; so I had picked up a 4k point and shoot camera instead for vlogging all my adventures and hospital visits I would have normally journaled.
We got married shortly after graduating together, and started our family. My love for vlogging and collecting memories to never forget, and his love for photography merged together during our first pregnancy! We wanted to beautifully capture and never miss any family milestone. Family is our biggest adventure God blessed us with. Since I am sick quite often now, we especially appreciate every photo taken, and every moment captured, edited, and uploaded or scrapbooked or hung up on a wall. And I’ll never forget the day I saw my first “neutral photo grid” with random beige items in between every other square. But I wanted a photo grid that matched my personality regardless of colors yet still looking consistent, professionally taken, and beautiful. After that, once we decided to share that with others...that is how E&L Photography was born!
How it started:
We met in Hungary in our first semester of Bible College, and one of the very first things he did was capture a photo of me in a sunflower field when the sun was behind me making a perfect backlit photo with just my cell phone.
I was in teen pageants and modeling agencies, while passionately journaling my life and publishing poetry. Writing and journaling was everything to me; while he was a barista owning a coffeehouse on the other side of the globe while his passion was coffee, and SLR photography. When both of our desires changed to learn more about God, we both became travelers for
Jesus! He took his camera with him, while I took my pen and journals with me.
When we met again to graduate together from College, 3 years had already passed, and I was already diagnosed with multiple autoimmune conditions not able to pick up a pen to write anymore. I was heartbroken; so I had picked up a 4k point and shoot camera instead for vlogging all my adventures and hospital visits I would have normally journaled.
We got married shortly after graduating together, and started our family. My love for vlogging and collecting memories to never forget, and his love for photography merged together during our first pregnancy! We wanted to beautifully capture and never miss any family milestone. Family is our biggest adventure God blessed us with. Since I am sick quite often now, we especially appreciate every photo taken, and every moment captured, edited, and uploaded or scrapbooked or hung up on a wall. And I’ll never forget the day I saw my first “neutral photo grid” with random beige items in between every other square. But I wanted a photo grid that matched my personality regardless of colors yet still looking consistent, professionally taken, and beautiful. After that, once we decided to share that with others...that is how E&L Photography was born!
How it started:
As a mom of three girls, I started editing our girls' photos and videos for social media, family, and to frame them for myself.
It was important for me to edit beautifully, but never change the actual way my babies looked. Hiring photographers for professionally done family photos for every single milestone was not an option for us. And filters and camera apps not only lowered the photo quality but also changed how people looked, and I didn't want my girls to have different faces. So I began editing our girls' photos myself using the basic limited tools. It’d take me much time and effort to edit minimal yet beautifully so my babies would look like how they really look in real life yet make it look professionally shot. Often, I had to edit my daughters' skin separately, giving it more attention because all my daughters have different skin undertones.
We, my husband and I, would stay up all night to finish editing after an outing. (We always take too many photos because of course we love taking photos of our family) Being physically sick all the time, it is so important for me to remember the feelings I had in every beautiful memory we made. However, being busy parents, we definitely didn't have the time to edit and to add that extra stroke of light or shadow, which makes a huge difference, to every single photo.
So we ended up creating presets to make the initial part of editing easier. But then I wanted each preset to be different and specific, catered uniquely to each and every single photo taken. So we created them with my style- and the last thing I wanted was a filter. I wanted photos with a clear distinction between lights and shadows, professional grade contrasts with well-balanced highlights without compromising any details of the photo's clarity. Just like when I used to be in front of the camera and people brought huge standing lights and flash in front of me.
I've noticed presets out there with washed out backgrounds and overly saturated faces to make them "brighter" or too broad in theme for a specific preset, making it hard to see your unique personality. Unlike those, I wanted a specific look- details in colors that are not offensive, smoothing out the skin, and photos that are true to reality while still being aesthetically pleasing. I wanted them to look professionally done.
Being a breastfeeding mother with a newborn baby always on my chest and two wild toddlers running around,
me and my husband could not vlog and edit as much as we could anymore, which was one of our biggest hobbies together. So we created our presets. Then, everything became so much easier for us, busy parents.
Being a breastfeeding mother with a newborn baby always on my chest and two wild toddlers running around,
me and my husband could not vlog and edit as much as we could anymore, which was one of our biggest hobbies together. So we created our presets. Then, everything became so much easier for us, busy parents.