Turn This Season of Childhood Into
Heirloom Wall Art
You’ll Treasure Forever
At Dale Studios, we create timeless family portraits in Eden Prairie for families who want more than snapshots on a phone. As a trusted family photographer in Eden Prairie, we help you capture this season of life and turn it into beautiful wall art for your home before it slips by.
Why Wayzata & Edina Families Choose Printed Portraits Over Digital Files
I want to tell you about a hard drive. Families in Wayzata and Edina ask us about this all the time. Digital files feel safe. They’re not. Here’s what we tell them. It belonged to a family I photographed in 2009. Beautiful session — three kids, a dog that wouldn’t sit still, late afternoon light
The Heirloom Album: Why Edina & Minnetonka Families Need One | Dale Studios
There’s an album I’ve seen versions of in a hundred different homes. Families in Edina and Minnetonka have trusted Dale Studios for decades to create heirloom albums that outlast hard drives and cloud storage. It lives on a low shelf in the living room, or in a cabinet in the study. It’s heavy — heavier
Interview Questions for Aging Parents | A Guide for Bloomington MN & Plymouth Families
My grandmother had a photograph of herself at seventeen — standing in front of a house I didn’t recognize, wearing a dress I’d never seen, next to a man whose name I never learned. Families from Bloomington MN and Plymouth have come to Dale Studios to preserve exactly these kinds of stories before it was
How to Organize Decades of Family Photos (Before It’s Too Late)
The box shows up after a funeral, usually. Someone clears out a bedroom and finds it — a shoebox, a rubber-tub, a grocery bag stuffed with prints. Inside: forty years of a life. A wedding. A child’s first steps. A vacation nobody can quite place. Faces no one can identify because the one person who
How to Include Grandparents in Family Portraits
In forty years of photographing families across the Twin Cities, there’s a conversation I’ve had more times than I can count. A family calls — usually a daughter, sometimes a son or son-in-law — and they want to schedule a portrait. And somewhere in the first few minutes, almost as an aside, they say it:
What does professional photo restoration cost in the Twin Cities? Here’s a plain-English breakdown of pricing tiers, what drives the price, and what’s included.
The photo has been in an envelope since your mother put it there. You finally open it — a wedding portrait from 1952, a little faded, a crease down the middle, one corner bent from years of handling. Before you even ask whether it can be fixed, the second question forms. “What’s this going to
How to Prep for Your Headshot Session (And Feel Confident on Camera)
Most people who come in for a headshot session have never done one before. Or they did one years ago, it felt stiff and rushed, and they’ve been quietly dreading doing it again. Either way, the anxiety usually comes from the same place: not knowing what to expect, and worrying that the result will look
What to Wear for a Professional Headshot: LinkedIn, Corporate, and Creative
You’ve booked the session. You’re thinking about the morning of — what goes in the bag, what stays home, whether the blazer you like actually photographs the way you think it does. Wardrobe is one of the few things in a headshot session that is entirely in your hands before you walk through the door.
When to Update Your Professional Headshot | Eden Prairie Photographer
You’re on a video call and someone pulls up your LinkedIn profile in the same window. You watch them glance at your photo — the one from six years ago, before the gray came in, before you changed your hair, before you moved into a different kind of work entirely. They look at the screen.
The Family Photos Chaska & Wayzata Grandchildren Will Never See
Your grandmother probably had a shoebox. Or a drawer. Or a cedar chest at the foot of her bed. And in it were the photographs — hundreds of them, sometimes thousands — that represented the visual record of her family, her marriage, her children, her years. Families in Chaska and Wayzata have come to Dale