Michele Celentano - Photographing Families Tips for Capturing Timeless Images

Photographing Families: Tips for Capturing Timeless Images

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Photographing

Families

Tips for Capturing

Timeless Images

Michele Celentano

About the Author

Michele Celentano is an accomplished wedding and family portrait photographer with more than 25 years of experience. Michele is one of an elite group of fifty photographers contracted by Canon USA to be a spokesperson for the companys Explorers of Light program. She also was awarded a Photographic Craftsmen degree from the Professional Photographers of America and the Accolade of Photographic Mastery from Wedding and Portrait Photographers International. Her artwork has been published in photography magazines such as Rangefinder, American Photo, Shutterbug , and Studio Photography . In addition to running her portrait business full time, Michele conducts seminars, workshops, and lectures on professional photography in the United States and abroad. Visit her web site at www.michelecelentano.com to learn more about her seminars and workshops as well as to view her beautiful images.

Michele a native New Yorker and currently resides in Arizona with her husband Paul and between them three daughters.

Photo courtesy of David Guy Maynard.

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