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This is Me

Hi there! I am Missy Cochran and I love photography, I fact, you could say that I am obsessive. It all started when I got married and had my wonderfully awesome grandpa take my pictures. He was a professional photographer and I thought all photographers were the same. After the wedding, I got the pictures back and they were all very traditional. Not grandpa’s fault, but mine for not knowing what I wanted. Anyway, I realized too late that I had actually wanted something different than what I got. Since my wedding is all over, I now get to live vicariously through my awesome couples. Other stuff about me is that I make a goal every three months to run regularly, but haven’t yet quite found my mojo. I think I like the idea of being a runner but maybe I am not really one at heart! I love sweets and I love my church and doing things that add joy to my life.

About the Blog-site

featuring my latest photo sessions, tips for photographers, ideas to make your pictures better, and tidbits about my life all randomly jumbled together. Using "categories" on the top menu can help you isolate your interest. If you like what you see, add me to your subscriptions to get the latest updates to the blog. Also I love comments! I read them all and try to reply to everyone.

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Category Archives: HS Seniors

Samantha’s Senior Pictures

We went to Helvetia Oregon for these pictures, my favorite spot.  Sam was a dream to photograph.  You can see the rest here.

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Lexy R. Senior Pictures

I am so behind with blogging!  Here is my latest senior session and I promise to catch up one of these days!!

This was probably the most eventful session I have ever done because Lexy’s friend who drove, locked her keys in the car and we couldn’t finish the session without the other outfit changes!  The three of us trecked up the road to the nearest house in order to borrow a phone book and we called a locksmith.  We tried 411 on a cell phone, but lost the signal halfway through the conversation.  After using every random odd and end we found in my car to get into their car, we gave up and sat in my car trying to stay as warm as possible.  Le’ me tell ya!  These gals are hillarious!!  I can see why they are such great friends ;)

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Madeline’s Dowtown Portland Senior Pictures

See the rest of the pictures here!

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Linnea Senior Session at West Union Farm

I think that was the name of the location where we got permission to take pictures.  Anyway, I love the first two images because Linnea was nervous in such a cute way.  The blurry sunflower pictures is a funny story too.  We were walking in the sunflowers and I accidentally pushed the shutter button (new camera).  It startled me so much much that I screamed just a little and jumped about three feet high.    You can see the rest of the iamges here!

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Lexy’s Senior Pictures

Check out the rest of the pictures here!

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Taylor’s Seionr Session at Hagg Lake

This is my new fvorite spot for seniors!  See the rest of this high school senior session here.

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Katy’s Senior Pictures in downtown Portland

What a pair we made in downtown Portland Oregon this afternoon!  Of course there is me carrying my bag of camera gear and Katy’s backpack of clothes getting my workout of the day and then there is Katy having to fight off people staring from their cars because she was looking amazing!  A big thanks to the local Portland restaurants that let us use their restrooms as clothes changing pit stops!  This photo session had such a spontaneous feel because we just walked around together chatting and then there would be a moments and Katy would look amazing because the light was hitting her just right so we would stop and take some pictures.  What a fun time we had!  Also a huge thanks to Katy for tapping into her mad modeling skills!!

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A fun little album I designed.  What do you think?  Should I buy a sample of it?  Jessi thinks the little illustrations are too kid-ish.  Should I just leave that part out and go with the layouts without the designs?

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Jessi

My recipe for pretty pictures

My sister + field + pretty light + half hour

Let bake for 1 hour in photoshop

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another session reworked

I don’t usually go back into old sessions and rework the images, but I am making some exceptions and wanted to post some of the reworked images. Again, some of you may have already seen some of these, but there should be some new ones too.

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Missy Cochran ~ is a lifestyle and wedding photographer in the Portland Oreogn area
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