Mike and Paula are great photographers and people! They genuinely care about you and want to give…read moreyou the best pictures. My wedding was 9/22/2014 and we had engagement photos done the year before. One of the great things about them is that they are incredibly flexible. Another is that they bring out the subject's character in each picture, which is exactly what we wanted - no obvious staged shots. Call Paula and Mike today! You won't regret it!

What an incredible experience. From our engagement to wedding everything was silky smooth and…read moreenjoyable. They comfort and guide you through every step of the way. They go above and beyond what photographers typically do. I can't imagine going any other route. We love them like family and will always consider them our friends. Please trust me when I say you won't regret it. With two shooters, an assistant, and a luxury vehicle to cruise around to various locations in you will feel like a king and queen. Every moment of our special day we amazing. Wouldn't have gone any other way. They have all things covered and really help plan our your day to make it picture perfect.

Amazing! Everything about this experience has been wonderful. They allowed us to bring even our…read morefurry family members, created amazing portraits and went beyond the extra mile to fit into our budget. Dahlberg will have our business for life!! Thank you Andrea and team!

*Edit -updated at end Posts on the FB that you can "win" a…read moresession. This is a high priced photo - be prepared. I won a session to have a photo shoot for an art portrait with our fur baby. Dahlberg website shows nice fancy photos. Here is part 1 of the review. 1. You get contacted to discuss if you are interested in photo shoot for your win. 2. You get a phone call and the discussion goes very fast. If you take on the session, you need to book and reserve your spot right away. 3. You need to hold your spot with a $200 deposit. It's nerve racking going that fast, but that is a business model that gets people in the door. There is pressure. However I knew that I understood this business strategy. I put down the deposit and immediately had a receipt and an email shortly after confirming everything we had discussed. A few days before they gave me a call and touched base and reviewed what was sent in the email. The day of the photo we got dressed up and headed to the location in Ames. There is a waiting room. It's simple with a couch and nice sign asking you to wait. There are giant photos of families. A nice assistant came out and talked with us, met our fur baby. We made our way into the photo room where we got to work with her and the photographer. They made us feel really comfortable. We shared with them that we were low key and easy to get along with. This was our first official family photo since our wedding photo. They had lots of experience getting our fur baby to pay attention and get some great photos. After the photos you are taken to a waiting room while they pull the best of the photos together for viewing. Then they come get you again and take you into another room where the wall is a full screen viewing for the photos. They throw and lot of information at you. Don't be afraid to ask questions. The next business tactic is that you need to make up your mind about what you want before you leave. Once you leave the photos are gone. Its a old sale way... "don't let them leave without the sale." Claire is a sale women, she also has family who owns the flower shop across the street, but she knows her pitch. Again, be prepared for the higher priced product. They offer financing if you need it. You get to go through all your favorite photos and what your thoughts are. Broke down the prices, broke down each type of print, sizes, ect. She left the room to allow us time to discuss what we could and could not do. The ladies were all nice. The pressure to get average people in the door is not awesome. The experience was unique and fun... so Im holding at a 3 until I see the final product. We made our decisions and now it's just waiting. 8 weeks. The photos are touched up and make their art elsewhere and then mailed to us. Everyone treated us professionally and we had a good time. I will update when we get the art. **Art arrived! YAY! It arrived around the promised time. The delivery box was in tact and everything was well packaged. The photos looked good and then they did send us digital to share on the social media. I'm excited to get the photos up on wall to display. The even called to check in recently to make sure everything went well with the photos. Just be prepared to purchase if you want a "free" photo session. I will hold my rating at the 3 and share that if you don't happen to have the $$$ for photos, no matter what the size, don't go expecting to walk out the door with photos to share. It's a business, it not finished in house and if you're not prepared its a sticker shock.

I've been in and out a few time thru out the this year. As I'm still very new to the photography…read morescene, A very polite and professional young lady help me at the front. Devin she is a rockstar! Great personality and extremely knowledgeable. Answered every question I asked without hesitation. Thank you!

Great service, friendly and knowledgable. I even brought four kids in the store with me while…read moreshopping for a lens! They were so patient with me and friendly too. I love that they're located in Valley Junction as well. I always enjoy walking around and exploring all the local shops there.

Bill was incredible and our wedding pictures turned out amazing! We had a big wedding party and…read moreBill did an amazing job of controlling the chaos! He was great with the kids and making sure everyone was ready for every shot. We also did our engagement pictures with Bill and they were so beautiful! He made great suggestions for how to pose for pictures and they all turned out wonderful! We could not have asked for a better photographer for our wedding day!

Extreme Photo is by far the best photographer around the Des Moines greater metro area! With over…read more30 years of experience, whatever your photo needs are, Bill's got you covered. My personal photographs and my wedding pics turned out beautifully. He has such an eye for detail! You won't be disappointed. See for yourself!

We had a lovely experience working with London! She got us in for a last minute shoot & had our…read morepictures back to us in the given timeframe! We loved our pictures & highly recommend!!

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I chose to work with Barber Photography for my headshot photos for work. They really took the time…read moreto understand what I was wanting and how I wanted my image to be professionally. The photos turned out great and put me above the competition. I will definitely tell my friends and family about how great Barber Photography was to work with.

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Doug and his assistant was wonderful! My other wedding photographer canceled on us, and Doug was…read morenot only willing to step in and take over with only 5 months to plan, he also offered me a great price for his services. All my fiance's family and friends live on the East coast, so we found out only a month out that they weren't going to make it to Iowa to be at our wedding. Doug quoted me $150 to do the videography (for just our wedding,which is what I had asked for.) Money was tight, so we were unable to pay it. He offered to drop the price another $50 dollars because he know I really wanted to have it for my fiance's family/friends back home. Luckily a wedding gift came in, that allowed us to get him to do the video too. My fiance has issues with bright lights and flash, and Doug was willing to tackle these issues by not using flash for our indoor photos. (A lot of wedding photographers we had originally spoken too, didn't want to touch this issue) He had an assistant there, that he paid out of his own pocket, so that he would be able to cover everything. His assistant was a sweetheart, who took photos but remained in the background, to the point I'd forget she was there. (Our bridal room was small.. so to do that takes talent.) Both Doug and his assistant was amazing. Professional, fun, easy going and a sense of humor. When our wedding party wanted to do some wacky things for our photos Doug and his assistant went with the flow and took the photos. I haven't seen the photos yet. Some of the outside photo locations, I couldn't see the whole picture....but guests watching I overheard them many times saying "Oh that will be a great photo" I will hire Doug again soon!

They did a great job on a corporate video for my company. Very professional staff and easy to get…read morealong with. They did everything that I wanted and it came out perfectly. I like the fact that they do not hold the copywrite hostage like many other companies do. I also like the fact that the owner has experience with Hollywood type movies. Even though mine was not fiction, the same techniques the Hollywood people use brought a flair to my video. The price was a lot less than I had budgeted, which was a pleasent surprise.