What street/area in Portland Oregon is the best for shooting senior portraits?

Hi there.

Well - there is a lot to choose from! I guess you would want to pick some place that reflects something you are interested in. So if you like music or theater - you might want to have your photo taken with the performing arts center or Paramount theater in the background. (that is on SW Broadway downtown)

If you like the arts, you might want to have your photo taken by the art museum, or by one of the many outdoor art pieces around downtown.

If you like the outdoors - a nice wooded park, or the zoo, or the world foresty center might be a good backdrop.

Or if none of those interest you, a nice option would be to go down to the water front have have the Willamette River in the background. Even better, go to the East side of the river - the east bank espanade it's called, and stand by the railing overlooking the water, and you'll have the entire downtown skyline in the background..it would make for a very pretty picture and certainly identify you as coming from Portland!

Whatever you choose, I think you are doing the right thing - I'm sure you'll have fun with it and when you look back at it, this picture will mean much more than something taken in a studio. (I graduated 25+ years ago and while I still have my graduation photos, I have no recollection of what studio it was taken at!)

uh out side voodoo donuts is good but there's always a billion people out there and a bunch of hobos but if your there you may as well get the best donuts on earth