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

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 9 months ago (1 children)

I thought of these:

They hold their hands up like they would if their palms would touch but there's a tiny gap about to close but still open, like their marriage about to happen.
Guy a few steps up the stairs, lowering an apple/flower/engagement ring tied on a rope, girl stands on ground floor, smiling tries to catch it. Most of photo grey, only the rope and dangling object in bright colour.
Beautiful landscape in the background, sunset or something, and their profiles as silhouettes from each side, eyes, nose, mouth all level to level, like those pictures you have to see either 2 people or 1 vase in the middle.
Open really big umbrella (called golf umbrella), both hold the handle, either standing looking in each other's eyes or walking towards camera, not touching each other. Spray some "rain" in between them and camera.
Door. One comes in the other opens the door in a welcoming manner. Or just the opposite, jokingly tries to close the door on the other.
He holds open the car door for her, she looks at him with love in her eyes. One foot out about to touch the ground, Princess Diana or Jacky Kennedy style.
Beach, sea in the background, both run towards each other, hands stretched out for a hug.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

thank you for the detailed comment!!!!!!