Michele Celentano: Working with Young Children & Families In the Portrait Studio |  

What are your questions about working with kids and families?

It's my first time that I see a tutorial on working with kids and photographing a family in studio! Learnt a lot! Thank you so much!

Great to watch. By the time I finish photographing my grandchildren and or groups, I’m exhausted. Feel like I had to stand on my head to get the shot! But always fun. I have to have lots of happy for the grandkids. I find my closeups are always the best too. Thanks for this great tutorial/BTS.

Holy cow, y'all! Outstanding insights and great demonstration session. The B&H training sessions are among my favorites. It's wonderful that you guys still put these up for free for everyone to watch. It's a wealth of photographic knowledge. I still go back and watch the sessions from many years ago. I really appreciate you guys and thank you Michele Celentano for allowing a crew to film you session and giving out great information to those of us who also enjoy shooting families!

She is really good with kids, I wish I had this superpower!

Great... passionate presentation

What a great performance, Michele must have been a kindergarten teacher in another life. I can shoot my actor clients all day and not get tired but I was exhausted watching her interact with the kids. She earns her well-deserved success. I primarily shoot actors in connection to master classes where we have 20-60 stage actors who want to transition to cinema and do headshots, full length plus a 1-minute intro video and a scene of 2 pages of dialog. There are 2-3 day programs twice a month, plus child actor classes. They are all pro experienced actors from 5 to 75yo but most are females 18-35. It is great to work with them but doing the kids, despite being experienced actors who have been in plays and movies, I wish I had 1/10 the connection with the kids as Michele has. My partner is a mother of two actors in addition to her having 14 feature film roles and 6 years as female lead in a police drama on TV. She is a natural with kids and works with young actors. Her two daughters have been in movies from about 4 years old and now the oldest is 16 so I just set up the sessions and let her direct and interact with the kids because she is really good, like Michele is. One thing I notice is both these women rise their voice range to that of a child and can act silly with them. I struggle with keeping a session light and fun with anyone under about 15yo, as a very active 73yo male. This is a specialty where women have a distinct advantage.

Love photoshooots its goood for memories

A lot of great information to keep the customer happy and repeat business. Thanks.

Love Michele she is the best!

This is so underrated. Amazing episode 🔥🔥

i love everything about this video.

Michele!!!! Great instruction. 💙💙💙

She’s amazing

LOVE THE VIDEO! You have the perfect personality for motivating the children, along with the PIZZA! :)

What a gal!! so informative from a amazing photographer, I learned so much. This is going to be my go to training vid. Thank you.

Bayside is actually in Queens but I really liked the video very much. Another great B&H video. Thanks a bunch.

Wow. Great information! I need to find more energy, lol. Michele, your ability to work with kids is inspiring. Thanks for the BTS video. I always find them uber helpful. 😀

Excellent tips and content.

I’m trying to start my own portrait photography business (near Phoenix, coincidentally) and she’s got a lot of great tips I’ve never thought of.

O love the patience :)

What brand of c-stand with casters that has the boom arm is being used? A good shot of it is at the 21:14 mark.

This is helpful

I love Michelle's photography and I'm so happy she did this with B&H! But, can someone please tell me what tripod and ballhead she's using? A person with arthritis would LOVE this! I saw her move that camera with such ease with the press of a button!

In my family portrait work it’s me only. This video is nice & theatrical but it’s not realistic, with all the assistants and perfectly behaved kids. But very insightful presentation, nice to see good talent.

The best photos are for graduation

do you only used one light ?

At a restauerant a client asked: "What's your favorite dish?" Photographer: - "The beauty dish!"

Michelle is from Bayside, Brooklyn? Spoken like a true non-New Yorker.

Beside her hair color I would haver guessed Michele in in her 50's Very good skin, stay out of the sun kids and you can have skin like hers. I have a hard time remembering peoples names, lucky I still remember my Wife's name. LOL Are my kids going to be idiots. LOL Good one.

I believe the FJ 400 came out in 2019. I remember seeing it demonstrated at Wppi before the plague

Why are you grabbing those kids jaws??! Pretty rude and unnecessary. ' I really need you to not be so flipping miserable OK?' . Seriously. Think we will take our advice from elsewhere. This is awful. B&H I think you need to rethink this one normally I love the content but it is really not good practice.