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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Charismatic vocal and humorous photographers do best here. You gotta get people to let their guard down through laughter or conversation they are interested in.

Starts with basic ice breakers like “what you guys been up to today?” “What’s your plans for the weekend?”. If they are siblings you have lots of potential material, “who got in trouble more?” “Who eats more?” Etc.

You want to see if you can get people in a place where they aren’t thinking as much about being photographed. You want them thinking more about feelings and emotions. It takes practice though.