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!!

  • universalrefuse@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I think a bookstore like an old/antique style one would be a fun setting. You could do a bunch of fun shots at the end of a book shelf, looking through the shelf at each other, peeking around, maybe passing a book to one another or trying to take the same book off the shelf, reading over a shoulder etc.