Four Intimate Engagement Portrait Poses

Four Intimate Engagement Portrait Poses I Love To Use!

For most couples, their engagement portraits are the first professional portraits they have taken. And this can cause a lot of couples to be a little nervous before the start of the session. The great thing about posing is that it is a lot easier than you think! When I take engagement portraits, I like to take the focus off of the camera by capturing interactions between you and your partner. A couple of ways that I like to do this is by getting a mixture of candid and intimate poses of you and your partner. Below I will share with you four easy and fun intimate engagement portrait poses that I I LOVE using!

How To Show Intimacy With Your Body Language

Perhaps the biggest way to show intimacy is through your body language. For example, standing close together vs standing far apart. Many times, you and your partner will do these things without being prompted. However, if you are nervous, or not used to taking professional portraits, it might not come naturally. The GREAT thing about taking engagement portraits is that once you take your focus off of the camera and “posing,” it is a lot easier than you may think 🙂 In my experience, there are three things that you and your partner can do to covey a high level of intimacy:

Your Eyes – One of the ways that I like to convey intimacy is through your eyes. In everyday life, your eyes are what people use to communicate. And it is the same way with pictures. A simple way to show intimacy is by closing your eyes, smiling. This creates a sense of mystery as to what you are thinking in the moment that the picture was taken. Looking away from or beyond the camera is another way to do this. And looking into each other’s eyes is also a great way.
Your Hands – Your hands can also tell an intimate story in your pictures. For example, putting your hands behind your back vs having your hands around your partner’s waist. Having your hands behind your back is very standoffish while having your hands around your partner’s waist is more intimate. Placing your hands on your partner’s face or chest is another example of this.
How Close You Are to Each Other – The third way to show intimacy is by how close you are to each other. The closer you are, the more intimacy that is portrayed 😉

Sitting Kiss

The first intimate engagement portrait poses that I will go over is the “sitting kiss.” For this pose, I like to give you and your partner some space. And it also works really well if there are flowers or other objects in the foreground of the image. What really makes this pose intimate is by the closing of your eyes as your partner gives you a kiss. Naturally, viewers of the image will try to imagine what it is you are thinking as your eyes are closed. To make it even more of an intimate pose, you can place your hand on your partner’s face 🙂

Nose to Nose

Another one of my favorite intimate engagement portrait poses is when you and your partner are nose to nose. This pose works really well because of how close you are to one another. It is also a pose that will naturally make you and your partner smile or laugh. And that is always good for portraits 🙂

Standing Behind

Standing behind is another one of my favorite intimate engagement portrait poses. There are unlimited ways that you can do these types of poses. They work really well because of how close you are to each other. But you can also incorporate the use of your eyes and your hands to make for a really dynamic pose.

Hug From Behind

Last but not least, another one of my favorite intimate engagement portrait poses is the “hug from behind.” This is a nice pose because it can be done by either partner. Similar to the standing behind pose, this shows intimacy by how close you are to your partner. And there are a lot of different ways to do this pose as well.

Hopefully these intimate engagement portrait poses have given you some ideas for your very own session. Once you and your partner are focused on each other, and not the camera, it is easy to get really great images. But you can use some of these tips as a baseline to get you started. Thanks!