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

submitted 11 months 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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[–] RedGreenWembley@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What about a piece of glass between you two? Or a piece of plywood or other thin, flat item that can be viewed on-end? That said, how I would stage that would probably be far too risque for these photos (hands trying to touch, leaning in and yearning)

I really like the bookshelf idea. But for the beach, some "beach stuff" that you can do together like a beach ball and I like the sand castle idea

[–] dakyoda69@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

You’re on to something with the piece of glass! Can’t think of how exactly but that’s a good idea