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!!
Have them hold the same thing. Same book, same piece of clothing; maybe putting her coat on, handing him his gloves, etc… Hands on the back of the same chair. Eye contact and body language brings people together without being physically intimate
Oh, yes, like those Victorian family portraits where everybody looks super serious, one sits on the chair, other stands stiff, holding on the backrest.