Posts

Destination Senior Portraits with Lacie

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.

Natural light urban portrait taken in Astoria Oregon Natural light urban portrait taken in Astoria Oregon Natural light urban portrait taken in Astoria Oregon Natural light urban portrait taken in Astoria Oregon

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

Destination senior Portrait taken in Astoria Orego Destination senior Portrait taken in Astoria OregoDestination senior Portrait taken in Astoria Orego Destination senior Portrait taken in Astoria Orego Destination senior Portrait taken in Astoria Orego Destination senior Portrait taken in Astoria Orego

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

Senior portrait taken near the harbor in Astoria Natural light portrait taken in Astoria Senior portrait taken near the harbor in Astoria Senior portrait taken near the harbor in Astoria Senior portrait taken near the harbor in Astoria Senior portrait taken near the harbor in Astoria

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

Destination Senior Portraits with Sky

The second of my three Destination Senior Portrait sessions with Class of 2016 Senior Models was with Sky.  My base of operations for my three scheduled days was Seaside Oregon, for Sky’s senior portraits we traveled south to see what we could find.  As can be expected on the Oregon Coast in the spring we had it’s fair share of of rain, but we had enough breaks in the downfall to get some great photos.  The first place we stopped was just past Canon Beach and it featured some great rock formations and a very cool waterfall with a shallow enough stream for some rain boot stomping!

rainy day portrait with a red umbrella and rain bootsstomping in the stream with red rain boots

Next in our exploring we found a great dense forest spot with a lot of moss covered trees and a nice hint of sunlight peaking through for a rim light on some natural light portraits.

natural light portrait in the forest

We continued down the coast and found a great turnout overlooking the ocean, the town of Manzanita and it featured some great dramatic clouds.

portrait overlooking the Oregon coast

Next we did some urban style portraits in the small town of Wheeler, Oregon.

small ocean town urban portrait small ocean town urban portrait

In the Rockaway Beach area we braved a few raindrops to get this portrait.

Rockaway Beach Senior Portrait

The tide was out so we were able to get some fun portraits on some rock formations just before Garibaldi.

oregon coast dramatic sky

We finished up our time in the town of Garibaldi.  There is a great public pier there that I have been dying to do portraits on for years, I tried one time before on a trip with friends but the rain hindered that effort.

Oregon Coast Destination Senior Portraits with Sky009 portrait on an ocean pier

After the pier the plan was to do some photos in another spot for sunset, but it started raining pretty hard so we stuck around Garibaldi to see if the rain would stop.   Thankfully it stopped just long enough for us to catch a little bit of the sunset peaking through the clouds.

ocean sunset senior portrait

Jason Duchow Photography is located in Oldtown, Idaho and does on location portraiture throughout Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington.   Jason specializes in environmental portrait photography often with the use of  dramatic lighting techniques and is also known for his freelance sports photography work.  Jason is also a Sponsored Pro for Interfit Photographic (http://interfitphotographic.com/)