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how to make no-touch couples photos less staged/awkward? (alien.top)
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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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[–] battlemetal_@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Motion! Long lens with the couple walking towards you, chatting with eachother and laughing etc. Sitting at a table with cozy drinks, gazing at eachother. Throwing a ball/playing a light sport. Is whispering in ears allowed? That can be quite intimate as well. A great way to get laughs is to ask the bride whisper what she wants on her wedding list in a sexy way into the grooms ear. Once she starts describing a vaccum cleaner they should giggle a bit.