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A sneak peek for Sara, my running partner, who is with her hubby, Eric, travelling all around the globe

Here are some of images I got from the “Film is not Dead” workshop I went to in July down in San Francisco!!!  I am so excited about film and how these have turned out that I have restructured my pricing to be able to incorporate a lot more film into all of my sessions both wedding and Portrait.  Here are some of the pictures and I have a lot more posted at my other blog: http://learnfilmwithme.blogspot.com  These are all straight out of the camera with 0.00% photoshop!!

About a month ago (wow, had it really been that long?)  a bunch of us local photographers went to Sara Grey’s Beach house at the coast for four days.  It was a photographer’s dream!  We talked shop almost the whole time except for when we didn’t talk shop.  I felt like I was in middle school have a huge sleepover with all my girlfriends without a lot of sleep.  Every day we went to the beach and took pictures of each other and we even had good weather most of the time.  The pictures I took were a new kind of experiment since it was the Fuji film’s version of a Polaroid camera.  I looked like a kinder-gardener walking to the beach with this huge plastic camera because I cannot yet be trusted with a real camera.  Yah, I got a lot of flack, but it was so fun and such a different experience to shoot with a VERY limited number of pictures that I could take.  I think I had 20 frames for the whole weekend.  Here is what I got…

Erica Ann knocked my socks off with her super sweet posing skills!

These girls thought I was taking a picture of their feet and they are bopping to the song, Under my umberella-ella-ella-eh-eh-eh which was stuck in my head the whole next day.

Sara Gray sporting her canon in the cutest way.

Dianne Michelle looking amazing

My sister, Melanie Jade (I call her Mel)

My camera really surprised me when the flash popped.  I didn’t even know it was there!

Taylor, I love her biker chick self juxtaposed with her sweet personality (Taylor, I don’t have your link!  If you send it to me, I will insert it.)

Jenni Carmon twice

Sara Gray again

Melissa looking fierce

Me.  Mel took it

Erica Ann again

My piggies

It’s me again.  So long.

For those of you just stumbling onto this scene, this is my brother Mike and his new wife.  Melanie (my sister) and I took their wedding pictures and these are a few of my favorites.  Luckily, we were smart and scheduled a romantic session the day before the wedding.  I say lucky because on the day of the wedding it rained all morning.  Their wedding took place at the Manti, Utah LDS temple.

This is their first glance seeing each other for the first time before the wedding.  Super sweet.

Becca’s two pairs of shoes.  I can’t decide which ones I like better.

My brother, what a stud.  Do you see the honey bee on his corsage?  He is really into bee keeping and there were decorative bees everywhere, the bouquet, the cake  and everywhere there were flowers. 

My friend, Bunn, invited me to come with her as a seond shooter to this henna party.  The bride and groom had been married on the previous day and this was a celebration for just the women.  Everyone was so happy to be there together.  Lots of laughing and dancing and celebrating the bride.  Here are a few details for the henna party that were fun.  I love the little girl’s hand with henna showing off how pretty it is.  The food was amazing, the music was lively and everyone was having a great time!  You can see more details on Bunn’s Blog

Can you tell that I really want to photograph a wedding?  Craig Mitchell hosted a lighting workshop for some local photographers and it really confirmed that I love natural light more than anything!  It was so fun to take pictures of the models when they weren’t posing, but that is just me!  Here is the make-up artist, Nicole getting one of the models ready.  Is this not reminiscent of getting ready pictures?  I think so, and I love these!

The make-up tool belt of power. 

Nicole the make-up artist is so beautiful!  She was even modeling her own amazing self!!

Isn’t Melissa cute in these?  So stylish.  These girls are so stylin!  Very inspirational to me because I am so casual all the time.  I wanna be stylish!

Here is Craig showing us how to use the light and then there is me shooting all natural!

Jenni, she is such a nut!  I love it!

So, the people on the bridge were participating too, fun!  People came up to us asking what was going on a lot.  I should have had some cards on me, but I didn’t.  Sometimes I just want to enjoy photography and not be on all the time.  So, it totally looks like this fireman is checking me out, but he is just laughing because a group of us gals were looking so silly getting athletic (a term coined by Jenni) with out cameras.  One of the firemen looks like he is posing for me.  Very nice

Jenni and Kim here.  Kim and I hung out for a little while before the workshop and we actually got to the workshop late since I forgot to change my watch from daylight savings.  We were thinking we had plenty of time to kill and instantly panicked when we figured out the folly of our ways!  While we were hanging out before I did a few pictures of Kim.  Fun fun.

After the workshop, we went to Red Robin and ate.  A bunch of us were starving, well I was because I had only eaten a little lunch and I was a clean plate-er!  Kim paid for me as a birthday present!  That was so sweet!  Thanks Kim!  Oh yah, yesterday was my birthday, good times.

Okay, so I wanted to make the header of my blog like a slideshow with these images as each slide or even try to get them to randomly generate whenever my blog page is refreshed but I can’t get it to work how I want it to. If I have to stick to one image, which one should I use? Any pereferences?

Photos by Dianne Bentz

Missy Cochran ~ is a lifestyle and wedding photographer in the Portland Oreogn area
my website ~ blog home

Yay, I had a photo session done with me in it! My friend and photographer Dianne Bentz got together with me on Saturday and we took pics of each other. I will post the images I got of her soon.

It’s a really weird things about photographers, we love taking pictures but very often feel uncomfortable in front of the camera. If you are camera shy, I totally understand the feeling! I am really trying to get over it and come out of my shell a little bit for your sake! I want you, my blog readers, to know who I am. No need to hide behind the camera all the time, right? Of course right!

Of course I used all my favorite editing programs to make myself a little thinner and a little prettier, ha ha!

Missy Cochran ~ is a lifestyle and wedding photographer in the Portland Oreogn area
my website ~ blog home

It was a dark and stormy night. We creeped up to the sign in a car with the lights off. clickclickclickclickclick what the heck was that noise!?! Upon realizing that is was a mini portable tripod attached to our friend Chrissy’s camer, I whipped up into a cheesy smily pose while Mel looked cautiously around to see if anyone heard us or if anyone was coming. Chrissy set the timer on her camera, jumped into the frame, and “click” we instantly morphed into insane tourists trying to drive by the Roloff Farm at midnight. We were detoured by the “no tresspassing” sign on their long driveway and decided to go to WinCo instead for some juice.

A few days ago, out of the blue, my friend, Chrissy, called to say that she wanted to come over for the weekend. Anyone know knows me longer than ten years may also know Chrissy, since that is the last time I saw her. Ten years ago, living in Florida with my family, we had sleepovers all the time with Chrissy and my sister, Mel. Since a sleepover wouldn’t be complete without Mel, she came too!

We went to Qdoba right before Mel had to leave us, the day after we stayed up till an insane 5am. “What could we have been talking about till 5am?” You many wonder. The answer would be quite simply “Roloff Farms”. Once Chrissy found out that the stars of the reality TV show “Little People Big World” lived in my zip code, she became obsessed!

Me:”Man, it’s 5am, I am sure tired.”
Chrissy:”You know, I just had a random thought, ‘Roloff Farms’.” And that is about how the rest of our conversation went. The whole time.

I am a clean plater–like my momma taught me.

Here are some pics from our second outing to Roloff Farms, once again we respected the “No Tresspassing” rule all the while Chrissy wondered if telling the Roloffs that she was their “biggest”fan would be offensive.

This is the car that drove past us while were hoping to see some TV stars from our car. Unfortunately Chrissy’s rearview mirror hangy-thing was blocking the view and we never saw who left that day.

Once we finally gave up on Roloff Farms for the day, we went downtown and had some fabulous Thai food and I chased the meter maid who almost gave Chrissy a ticket. Probably the most productive thing I did that whole time was save Chrissy $25. I must also say that I have had my fill of Roloff Farms even though we didn’t see much. I am just glad Chrissy doesn’t live in Hollywood, she might just become a stalker or something. Oh, and if any of the Roloffs ever read this, no offence, but Chrissy is by far your biggest fan.

Missy Cochran ~ is a lifestyle and wedding photographer in the Portland Oreogn area
my website ~ blog home

Okay, so I have some explaining to do. If any of you have seen our website in the last little bit, you will notice that we are making some changes. Melanie is deciding not to book any weddings or portrait sessions this year of for the next few years. You can still follow her blog which I have a link to on the right side of my blog, but it will be mostly personal work. “Why is Melanie slowing down?” You might ask. Well, it’s because she has two babies that want her attention and she wants to be an awesome mom. She is thinking about getting back into it all in a few years when her kids are in school. In the meantime, she is still planning to second shoot with me this summer whenever she can. It doesn’t look like they will be moving to Texas this year either so that means that she will probably be with me for most of my weddings–wah hoo!!

And now for some more explanation, When Mel and I were first starting artisan we spend a good little while trying to think of the perfect name. We thought we had the absolute best name ever, “Artisan Photographics.” Artisan because we consider ourselves to be very artistic and photographics because it isn’t just photography, we pride ourselves in our ability to process our work with photoshop and the best editing software to make it really stand out. It was a total bonus that it began with an A and would be at the top of every alphabetical directory. Life was perfect until…we realized that Artisan Photographics is about one of the most generic photography business names on the planet. We saw Artistique Photographie (nice people, bytheway), Artistic Photography, and even A Artistic Photography just to name a few–in Oregon alone!!

Inspired by photographers who personalize their online presence, I decided I wanted to do the same. Not only are we changing our name and our logo, but I intent to post a lot more blog entries that are personal. I know you all want to know what I eat when I am camping, but seriously, that is the stuff I may share. Everyone should know that I am not afraid to make silly faces, so you will probably see more of that as well. I want to post video and pics from my point and shoot–yes, I too use one of these amazing little devices.

We will be phasing out the old brand very slowly, it will probably take about a year before we have the logo completely swapped out, but it will be obsolete soon enough.