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.
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…
Your LinkedIn Photo Is Costing You Money | Plymouth & Wayzata Professionals
People decide whether to click on you in about half a second. Your photograph is the whole thing they’re deciding on. If you’re a professional in Plymouth, Wayzata, or anywhere in the west metro, this is costing you more than you realize. One session at our Eden Prairie studio fixes it. If you’re a professional…
Can Your Old Photos Be Saved? 7 Answers for Wayzata & Plymouth Families
People bring us photos wrapped in tissue paper. Photos sealed in Ziplocs because the last person who touched them left a fingerprint and they don’t want to make it worse. Photos someone’s been keeping in a drawer for forty years because “it’s too far gone to do anything with.” Families from Wayzata and Plymouth bring…
The Ages Eden Prairie & Chanhassen Parents Regret Not Photographing
The parents who come to us with the most emotion in their voice are almost never parents of newborns. They’re parents of eleven- and twelve-year-olds. At Dale Studios, families from Eden Prairie and Chanhassen tell us the same thing — they wish they had come in sooner. They bring a phone, and they scroll, and…
AI vs. Hand Photo Restoration: What Chaska & Chanhassen Families Should Know
A few years ago, restoring an old photo meant finding someone who knew what they were doing, sending them your original, and waiting a couple of weeks for a retouched file to come back. Families in Chaska and Chanhassen who have trusted AI apps with precious photos have often come to Dale Studios afterward —…
Photographing Aging Parents Before It’s Too Late | Eden Prairie & Edina Families
Most of the adults we meet at Dale Studios have the same story about their father. Families in Eden Prairie and Edina have called Dale Studios after a health scare, a hospitalization, or a diagnosis — and every one of them said the same thing: they wished they had come sooner. There’s a wedding photo…