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how to make no-touch couples photos less staged/awkward? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by unfortunate-moth@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Asking from the perspective of both the model and the photographer!

For context, in my community couples don’t touch before marriage. As a result, engagement photos can be…stiff. Either photographers try to make it look like they’re touching by placing the woman a few steps in front of the man, or they just awkwardly hang out next to each other/separated by a flower vase.

My partner and I are about to be engaged. Now, we do touch, but we need photos that we can post publicly for more religious family and friends to see😂 The photographer taking the pics has a lot of really pretty photos (think snapshots from a movie vibe) but from her website I only see couples who touch.

I thought about maybe some props or doing it some place like a bookstore (because we are total nerds haha) although I know my partner envisioned it more like on a beach or something like that.

Any tips for all of us?

Thank you!!

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[–] KidElder@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Build a sand castle on the beach. Hopefully covers what your partner wants.

Both peak over a dune and look at something in between you as a surprise and you could still touch as it wouldn't be in the photo. Only you would both know.

[–] unfortunate-moth@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

omg brb adding kites to my list of things to get if possible because that’s adorable. burying is unfortunately not possible because the weather here suddenly got very cold (like one week t shirt weather and the next im in a winter coat and shivering🥲) but we’ll see how it goes!! those are all very cute ideas ☺️