Easy Tricks To Get Seductive Photos (Examples Included)

We love to seduce. Photographically I mean.

It is true that contemplating a finished photograph of us fills us with satisfaction, but the pride we feel when sharing it and seeing the expression of astonishment and admiration on the faces of others, that is a rewarding feeling that is priceless. Photographing is above all communicating. The fact of producing a seductive message that leaves a pleasant effect on the viewer is the goal of any photographer.

Seduction, however, is not something casual or accidental. It is something that photographers try to achieve through the use of certain very specific techniques or means. If you want to produce a photograph that seduces, you have to be very clear, from the moment you think about taking it, what element of seduction you are going to use. And no, a pretty model with a sexy look is not the type of seduction I am referring to. Here we seek to seduce the viewer. That whoever sees your photograph pay special attention to it, feel an irresistible desire to contemplate it for a long period of time.
To seduce with a photograph is to make something move inside the viewer.

In today’s article I am going to reveal some techniques that you can apply in your next photographs. With any of these methods you will get seductive photographs that will be engraved in the retina of everyone who sees them. I will also include some specific examples where you can see the game of seduction put into practice.

Before entering fully into the subject, I am going to ask you to stop reading at this very point if you are not willing to put some of these techniques into practice. Do you know what it costs me to write each of these articles? I’m happy to do it because I keep the fantasy that someone on the other side of the computer will read it, find it useful, and put it into practice.

Please. I beg you 🙂 put some of what you read in this article into practice. Enjoy the result. Thanks.

Now yes, to the mess.

Seduce… for what?

We don’t want the game of seduction in a photograph for no reason. It has its purpose too.

  1. On the one hand, as I said in the introduction, the satisfaction you feel when others enjoy your photography and feel something beautiful just by looking at it is priceless. It is a psychological gratification. It is something that those of us who like photography do for free. You don’t need anyone to pay you to take the camera, work hard to get a great picture, and share it around.
  2. On the other hand, and here comes the “key” part: a seduced viewer is a receptive viewer. Like words, music, etc., photography pursues the purpose of communication. We want to convey an idea, a message, convey a concept to the other party, perhaps try to convince them of a position, raise awareness, get their sympathy for a cause, etc.

Well, conveying your idea, getting the other party to stay with it, to give it a spin or two, becomes much easier if you have first visually seduced them with the photo. A seductive photo is a photo that touches our hearts. Whatever the content of the message, it also reaches with her, very deep, and provokes whatever effect there.
It doesn’t matter if your photography pursues very noble goals. If you don’t take good photography, if your photography doesn’t seduce, if it doesn’t have anything visually appealing, your message won’t get very far.

Your photographs have to seduce. As for the “how”, we see it below.

Tricks to get seductive photographs

Bokeh technique

The Bokeh technique is achieved by playing with a depth of field. It consists of highlighting the subject, object or thing giving it an infinitely sharp focus, while keeping everything else, background, surrounding objects, accessory elements, decoration, scene, etc., as out of focus as possible.

If you like this technique when you see the example, know that here you have an entire article, very extensive, dedicated entirely to this technique. Contrary to what it might seem to you, let me tell you that Bokeh is one of the easiest photographic techniques that a photographer, even a very beginner, can practice. With it you can highlight the prominence of your subject or focus attention on a certain object. It really is very easy and allows you to achieve very good photographic results.

black and white

I don’t know if it’s my thing, but I think black and white says much more than color. It seems paradoxical. The more color a photograph has, it is supposed, the more emotions and more ideas, but it is not like that. Precisely the abundance of colors in a photograph, or the excess of saturation and intensity of colors, often plays as a negative factor, since it distracts the viewer’s attention. Colors sometimes disturb. They subtract and do not add.

Black and white is a classic that does not go out of style. Black and white photographs, if well done, convey greater emotional charge.
On the other hand, black and white doesn’t work as well with all photographic subjects. But when used well, it is capable of captivating the viewer and turning him or her into almost another character in the photograph.
Look at the example. Thanks to the use of black and white, the photographer is able to capture and convey the look of the character in all its strength. The same gaze would be less intense if the photo were in color.

forced perspective

If you can portray a scene that looks something other than what it really is, you can seduce the viewer with surprise. Optical illusions attract attention due to the game they propose. They are a kind of impromptu mini-puzzle, as they challenge the viewer and make them think about how the photograph was normally taken and what composition was based on it to achieve that visual result.

Making forced perspective does not require any special equipment, not even a camera to use. You can get great optical illusions just with your mobile phone camera. Of course, a little inspiration is required 😉

If you’ve been left wanting inspiration, take a look at this video:

Long exposition

The example that I bring you is of long exposure, but there are multiple ways to awaken something in the viewer through the use of shutter speed in general.

The human eye is used to seeing things in a “normal” way, if I may use the term. Shooting with a shutter speed that is too slow allows us to capture things that the eye does not normally see, or at least does not see in the same way. Likewise, photographing with a shutter speed that is too fast allows us to obtain photographs that we are not used to seeing.

Here’s a great example of a very successful use of long exposure. A slow rate of fire gives the water that silky effect you see here. The photo seems to describe a landscape of another planet, but it is a wonderful place called Earth 🙂

play with color

I confess that color photography is a bit difficult for me personally. I find it a bit more complex than the black and white photo. I think it’s very easy to make the mistake of taking colorful photos without any meaning. A good color photograph is a photograph in which the colors have been brought together, arranged and composed in a certain way, very specific, to achieve the effect that the photographer is looking for.

Photographing a set of colors just because it does not have any merit for the photographer. Photographing a dress full of colors, in itself, is not a great work. The work in any case will be the dress itself, not its photograph.
However, if you pay a little attention to your surroundings you can get real gems in terms of photos.

Sometimes nature hides true visual treasures in unexpected places and times, or that few frequent. If you develop the photographic eye, train it over time, and take the trouble to find yourself at the right time and place, you will be amply gratified.

The world upside down

Turn things around. It surprises the viewer where it is not expected. Introduce him to unusual sensations. One of the ways you can achieve this in photography is through something as simple and within everyone’s reach as turning the camera around.

The technique usually gives very good results in rain reflections for example.

new angles

When it comes to conquering the viewer, the most difficult photo is the one taken from a normal angle, at eye level, directly, from the front. No more. We all fall into this mistake, firstly because it is comfortable to photograph standing up, looking through the viewfinder and shooting from the front; and second, because it is the vision that is most natural to us. The question is precisely that, the less usual the photo is, the more attractive and striking it will be.

In your next photographs try to experience new angles of vision. Shoot from places you normally wouldn’t. You will be surprised by your own results.

Look at the following example. Thanks to the unusual angle, you, the viewer, feel different. You feel more “involved” within the scene. Closer, with a more direct and close relationship with the dog.

Your turn!

I warned you at the beginning of the article. Nothing you have read so far is going to help you, not even the slightest, if you don’t put it into practice. It’s more. What you have learned in this article will be totally useless if you let a lot of time pass before putting it into practice.

Only by practicing it will you get results. And by the way, it doesn’t matter if something seems difficult to you, most of the time it is just a false feeling. You take the camera, fully charged battery and equipped with 2 or 3 memory cards, and start experimenting. As soon as you see your first results you won’t want to stop.

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