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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)

If it's not pushing boundaries too much, you could try the "almost touch".

- Reaching out with space between fingers as if you're trying to hold hands, but aren't.

- Palm to palm with air between.

- Leaning towards each other on a rail of some sort such as a bridge or something. Keep space between.

You could also use props. Since you're thinking beach:

- Each holding one end of a conch shell or something else beachy. Or just use a simple rose. Something so you're close enough to touch the same object and have that connection for the eye to follow, but still aren't touching each other.

- Walking while carrying something between you, one hand on each side such as a sand bucket handle or a boat rope or something else beachy

- Lay on a beach blanket with space between you, but leaning towards each other reading a book.

- Build a sandcastle together! (Or write words like "marry me", "just engaged". Perhaps build a sand diamond ring?)

- Throwing a frisbee between each other. No need to catch if your eye-hand coordination is awful. The pictures won't be able to tell you missed! ;)

- Embrace the "down on one knee" vibe, but do something unexpected like having one partner present a shell, crab, or some other natural beach object to the other.

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

thank you so so much!!!!!