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Elizabeth Dahl Photography NEW WEBSITE!!!!!!!

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

I have an exciting announcement – my new website is complete!! Go to www.birth-beauty.com

Can you do me a favor? Check it out and let me know how it is working for you, if I’ve miss-spelled anything crazy-wrong or if you feel something could be improved. Just let me know how you like it! It would help me a lot. THANKS!!

Posted in Web/Life Updates Tags: birth photography, elizabeth dahl photography, maternity photography, minneapolis, modest birth modern beauty, new website, newborn photography, saint paul, twin cities, twin cities birth photographer

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Twin Cities Birth Photographer: Beautiful Birth Movies!!

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

What if you could watch and re-watch the most beautiful and precious moments surrounding your birth experience?

What if you could show those moments to your child as they grow, so that they might always know and reflect on the love you’ve had for them, from the moment they were born?

Elizabeth Dahl Photography immortalized the love of this family in a short film about the birth of their fist child, Kayleigh Mae.

What if your parents had been able to capture something like this from your own birth?
How would that impact your life today?

You can view more photography from this birth in the following slideshow:

And watch this couple’s review, here!

Posted in Birth Photography Tags: baby first moments, birth cinema, birth film, birth movies, birth photographer, birth photography, birth stories, birth story photography, c-section, crystal, minneapolis, MN, newborn, pregnancy, saint louis park, saint paul, twin cities

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Twin Cities Birth Photographer – Happy Holidays!!!

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

To my beloved family, amazing friends and fabulous clients,

I hope you are all enjoying a peaceful holiday season with the ones you love! My family and I feel blessed to know each of you.
Enjoy this little movie-card and lets try to stay in touch throughout the new year. 2013, here we come!

Much love,
Elizabeth

Posted in Family Tags: birth photographer, christmas, elizabeth dahl, holiday, minneapolis, minnesota, photographer, tree, twin cities

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Twin Cities Birth Photographer – Welcome Home Lola & Jubilee

Saturday, September 15, 2012

I had been so excited about attending and photographing the birth of these twins! But when these little girls were born 2 months early, I simply wasn’t able to be there. I was happy to welcome them home with this photo shoot!

Posted in Baby, Family, Mother & Baby Tags: birth cinema and photography, crystal, minnesota, MN, mn birth photographers, saint paul, twin cities, twin cities nicu photographer, welcome home babies

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Twin Cities Maternity Photographer: Dryad? Goddess? Warrior Princess?

Monday, September 3, 2012

One of my favorite clients. Before photographing her birth we wanted to celebrate her pregnancy with a beautiful styled portrait session. This is what we came up with!

Posted in Fashion, Maternity Tags: crystal, maternity, MN, pregnancy, saint paul, styled, twin cities

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Welcome, Zackary James!

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Another beautiful birth – and this time I traveled to Hudson, WI! So blessed to be able to witness these moments.

This was my first birth with a mother who was using the hypnobabies technique. She did a great job!! I was very impressed.

Posted in Baby, Birth Photography, Mother & Baby Tags: Baby, birth cinema, birth movie, birth photographer, birth photography, child, cinematography, g rated, hospital, hudson, hypnobabies, hypnobirth, minneapolis, minnesota, MN, movies, natural birth, newborn, photography, pregnancy, professional, saint paul, session, twin cities, WI

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Twin Cities Birth Photographer: My First Birth Movie

Thursday, July 12, 2012

During the past couple months I have had the opportunity to photograph three amazing births. With each birth I stepped out of my comfort zone a little by capturing more video…and so begins my journey into the world of birth movie-making.

Before I start offering this additional service to my clients, could you do me a favor? Could you let me know what YOU think of the following video?

Is it worthwhile, is it moving…is it something you might want for yourself? Constructive criticism is so helpful to me at this stage in the game…so thanks you guys, I really appreciate it!!

This was an incredible birth…

Posted in Birth Photography, Family, Mother & Baby Tags: birth photography, child, crystal, family birth, father, homebirth, minneapolis, MN, mother, newborn, photographer, saint louis park, saint paul, twin cities, waterbirth

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Michelle Meyer - July 15, 2012 - 1:47 am

Elizabeth, Thanks for posting. I love. Like I commented on fb. It makes me want to reverse Nick’s procedure and have another just to have a VH like this. Makes the experience even more amazing! I have had amazing births though as you know. I love how you capture everyone in the family throughout the experience/VH. I love the beginning, of the shot through the curtain for some privacy. If you ever need an assistant let me know I will have to come up with some constructive criticism. I will watch again when it isn’t 4 in the morning. And yes… I would at least pay $1000 for this and some photos.

Erika Martin - July 22, 2012 - 6:37 pm

That was precious! Great mix of pictures and video. Loved it!

Lori - September 30, 2012 - 11:51 pm

One suggestion would be to draw out the labor part of the video a bit more. Music is what ties it altogether and a really good birth video will bring tears to your eyes. Featuring the siblings is excellent and the more personal u can make it and the more emotion u can capture the better.

Elizabeth Dahl - October 1, 2012 - 7:02 am

Thanks for the suggestion! I would usually do so, but In this particular circumstance the labor was incredibly quick – only and hour and 45 minutes, and I was there for the last 45. Focusing on the labor for very long really wouldn’t be fitting in this case. Every video will be different because of the circumstances and the people that happen to be there. In this video I really wanted to capture the joy of the babies birth as he interacted with his new family – because that’s what really stood out to me at this particular birth. Focusing too much on the labor would throw off the overall spirit of what was going on , IMO.

But this was a good point to make. Again, the labor part would usually be longer…except that this wasn’t a long labor!
(I’ve also done videos where the labor really took very long, and so the labor ended up taking up much more of the video than it would normally…because the labor was such a huge part of the experience. )