Missy Cochran Oregon Photographer » Wedding and location Portrait Photography all over Oregon.

Hi everyone, here’s the deal

If you book a family of children session to take place in May, you will get the session and the 8×10 print ready disc for $350!  I just bought a book about children’s portrait sessions (a very expensive book) and I want to try out the ideas.  So, let’s say you want to book a session.  Call me (or email and I will call you) and we will chat about what you are hoping to get out of the session.  I will ask about the images you like on my website so that we can book a similar session for you.  I will help you with clothing options phone and email.  The disc is for your personal use only.  You will still get a gallery for family to order from if they want to and it will be available to you for ordering large prints or albums, but if you only want the disc, that it totally fine!

This one is new, you pick the location (I will give you pointers when we chat).  I am charging $2 a mile for any location outside of zip code 97229 and I expect to travel since everything I photograph is on location.  I use google maps to figure out how much to charge for travel, so hopefully that will give you an idea.  Oh, and if you have a friend who wants to do this to and we book the session for the same day and location back-to-back, I will waive the travel fee up to 50 miles and if you have two friends (three sessions) at the same location, back-to-back, I will waive travel up to 100 miles.

This Month may book up really fast, so don’t wait to call! I am so excited to get some momentum taking portraits!!

The link to children’s portfolio

For this session I got to leave Portland and travel to St Helen’s Oregon to take these family portraits.

Sometimes I feel like there aren’t enough boys on the blog so hopefully this session will balance it out a little.  In the last session I did with the little girl and the lollipop, I had more pictures of her than her brother and sometimes I feel a little bummed about that.  In that particular case it was because he wanted to run around instead of staying where I wanted him to so the ones I did get were because I was chasing him around the field, ha ha.  You may not be able to tell in these pictures, but we (myself plus mom and dad) were working hard to get everyone together for a family picture. 

The boys sat here for about three seconds before they ran in two directions.  The one with Lorna is awesome because she is trying to make it a game and smile herself.  Before I took the picture, her son was crying because she had picked him up and he wanted to go where he wanted to go.  You can even see the tear still in his eye.  Aren’t his blue eyes amazing?

One down, but the trick was getting them both with mom and dad at the same time.  We let them do some separate to get used to idea.

Now we are all together.  Dad’s amazing antics get both boys laughing.

Yay!!!  We finally got everyone together.  At this age, I don’t even try getting everyone to look at the camera.  If fact I tell the parents to be engaged with the kids and just make sure they aren’t blocking your faces.  The picture on the right is hilarious.  I was directed by Sage to take this picture.

I loved Lorna’s boots and needed an excuse to get some sassy pictures of them.  These are so fun!  Since when do you get engagement pictures after you are married?

Sassy boots again, love em!

This was so funny, Sage is stoked to get on the trike and ride around outside.  He is quickly discouraged by the fact that it is very difficult to peddle on grass.

Keeping up

This kid has so much personality, overflowing with it.  Too fun!  I laugh when I think of all the times he tried to run me over and curve away just in time to avoid actually hitting me.  The middle picture shows him doing exactly that.  Do you see that mischievous grin?

Jude was just in keep up mode and when Lorna said it was Jude’s turn on the trike, Sage went inside to vent his frustration in time out.  Turns out, he had missed his nap earlier and that is just the way things roll sometimes.  It’s tough being a kid.

How could I have forgotten to tell you?  Lorna is a photographer!  Here are some head shots I got for her at the end of the session.

Missy Cochran photographs children’s Photography in Portland Oregon and the surrounding areas.

This is just a quick post to give Lorna a quick peek at what I got for her family.  I love the trike one since it’s just a little too big, ha ha.  Good times!

January is usually my month for a little R&R to recuperate from a busy years of weddings and portrait sessions. This year is a little exceptional because I really trying to incorporate more family sessions in the website and establish a bit of a style for it. I am so excited about how these turned out! I love love love the lifestyle look and candid feel of them! And I was so impressed at how naturally affectionate they were with each other.

Missy Cochran ~ is a lifestyle and wedding photographer in the Portland Oreogn area
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I have often shyed away from family portrait session because I am not a traditional gal.  I was so excited to take pictures of Brenda’s family on a wet Saturday after in their lovely home.  Brenda was game for anything, and I mean anything!!  Her kids got to jump on the bed having pillow fights, race around the living room on each other’s shoulders, and have tickling wars on the couch.  Now THAT is what I am talkin about!  It was so much fun and I love what we got.

I was so happy that my friend Jen let me try some fun new things with her and her girls.  Mostly, they just did fun things for themselves and I got to take pictures of all the good times.

Baby surgery is a delicate process.  It was a total success!

Because our style is so free spirited, I often struggle with what we have to offer our clients for wall display.  Some of the coolest images we get are not necessarily what you would have framed and hang on the wall.  We urge our clients to let us help them put together a wall display that will tell a story with a variety of images.  These turn out amazing!  We also have another option that we are making available as well.  It is so fun to put a story together with a story board (it means you only have to find one frame).  This is a sample I put together and it works so well with lifestyle images.  Just think about having a storyboard of you kids with a “bath time” theme or “cooking with grandma”.  The possibilities are endless!

I had a really fun kids shoot this morning and promised myself I wouldn’t obsess over these pictures.  I thought I would burst trying to get my work done today so I could work on these.  They are so fun and full of little personalities!  Just a few of my favorites, enjoy

Yesterday was so hot here in Oregon and instead of staying indoors with the AC like a sane person would do, I went and did four mini photoshoots plus a photo safari. Out of control! It was fun though. I took pics for my aunt and uncle who are also photographers. They needed a cool headshot for their website and I have been dying to take pics of their cute kids. Obviously they don’t need kid pics since they are also photographers, but after pleading and begging (okay so I didn’t have to grovel, but I am thinkfor for the oportunity) they let me. Here are my favs…