Destination Senior Portraits with Lacie

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My third and final Destination Senior Portrait session with my Class of 2016 Senior Models was with Lacie in the Astoria area.  I have visited and driven through Astoria on many occasions and every I would dream of doing some Senior Portraits in many of the locations I would see.  Finally my dream cam true!  We started out at the Astoria Column, we had some fun throwing small wooden planes sold in the gift shop from the top of the tower and then made use of the awesome view to get the bridge and mountains as a backdrop.

Senior Portrait taken at the Astoria Column overlooking the river and bridge Senior portrait taken at the Astoria column overlooking the mountains

We pondered the idea of going to the famed house where they filmed the movie Goonies, but we decided against it and instead explored the surrounding residential areas and found a nice shaded spot for some natural light portraits.

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Next we visited a pier along the river, there were some great buildings on the pier where we could shoot inside and out.

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Next we worked out way down the river and found a couple spots with boats, pilons and an old moss covered dock ruins.

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We concluded out day at the wreck of the Peter Iredale.  This boat ran ashore on October 25, 1906 and has been steadily decaying ever since.  The hope was for a vibrant sunset as a backdrop for the portraits but the clouds in the distance had other ideas.  So, rather than depend on the weather we added out own vibrant colors to the scene by putting a red gelled strobe inside of the wreckage.  This is something I had done previously when shooting a landscape photo of the wreckage and always thought it would be fun to add a High School Senior into the mix.  Here is the end result.

Senior portraits taken at the wreck of the Peter Iredale Senior portraits taken at the wreck of the Peter Iredale