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Couples Session + Posing Guide
Everything you need to plan your engagement or couples session, plus 50 natural poses for beaches, harbors, fields, and town commons across the South Shore. Fill out the form and your download appears right away.
Written by Chris McCarthy, photographing South Shore couples and engagements since 2014.
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Part One · Plan Your Session
- ✓Your engagement session: What every session includes, how long it runs, and bringing your dog or something meaningful.
- ✓When to schedule: Where it fits in your engagement, the best seasons, golden-hour timing, and what happens if the weather turns.
- ✓Where we shoot: Eight South Shore favorites, from Duxbury Beach and World’s End to Brewster Gardens in Plymouth.
- ✓What to wear: Coordinating as a pair, colors that love the South Shore, and four ready-to-copy outfit ideas.
- ✓What to bring + what to expect: A session-day checklist and what happens before, during, and after.
Part Two · 50 Poses
One pose per page, with what it is good for and two tips to make it work.
- Walking + Movement9
- Standing6
- Close Connection13
- Playful + Interactive10
- Seated7
- Details + Storytelling5
Pose illustrations are AI-generated reference images created to show each pose clearly. They are not photographs of South Shore Photography clients.