We love to seduce. Photographically, I mean.
It is true that contemplating one of our finished photos fills us with satisfaction, but the pride we feel in sharing it and seeing the expression of wonder and admiration in the faces of others is a rewarding feeling that is priceless, photographing is above all communicating. Producing a seductive message that leaves a pleasant effect on the viewer is the goal of any photographer.
- Seduction.
- However.
- Is neither accidental nor accidental.
- This is something photographers try to achieve using certain techniques or very specific means.
- If you want to produce a photograph that seduces.
- You have to be very clear.
- From the moment you plan to take it.
- What is the element of seduction that you have.
- And no.
- A pretty model with a sexy look isn’t the kind of seduction I mean.
- Here.
- We seek to seduce the viewer.
- Anyone who sees your photo pays special attention to it.
- Has an irresistible desire to contemplate it for a long time.
- To seduce with a photograph is to move something inside the viewer.
In today’s article I will reveal some techniques that you can apply in your next photos, with one of these methods you will get seductive photographs that will be engraved on the retina of everyone who sees them, I will also include some concrete examples where you can see the game of seduction put into practice.
Before I go into the subject, I’ll ask you to stop reading at this point if you’re not willing to implement any of these techniques Do you know what it costs me to write each of these articles?I am happy to do so because I have the fantasy that someone on the other side of the computer will read it, find it useful and put it into practice.
Please, shall I beg you? Practice something you read in this article and enjoy the result. Thank you.
Now yes, to the brothel
We don’t want the game of seduction in a photograph because yes, it also has its purpose.
Well, conveying your idea, making sure the other side stays, to give it one or two turns, becomes much easier if you first seduced them visually with the photo. A seductive photo is a photo that touches our hearts. content of the message, also accompanies it, basically, and causes some effect, no matter if your photograph has very noble purposes, if you do not take good photos, if your photograph does not attract you, if it is not visually appealing, its message will not go very far.
Your photographs must seduce. As for the “how”, we see it below
The Bokeh technique is obtained by playing with a depth of field, it consists of highlighting the subject, the object or the thing giving it an infinitely sharp focus, keeping everything else, background, surrounding objects, accessory elements, decoration, scene, etc. blurrier possible.
If you like this technique when you see the example, know that here you have a complete article, very complete, entirely dedicated to this technique. Contrary to what may seem to you, let me tell you that the Bokeh is one of the simplest photographic techniques that a photographer, even a beginner, can practice, with it you can highlight the prominence of your subject or draw attention to a certain object, it is really very simple and allows you to get very good photographic results.
I don’t know if that’s my thing, but I think black and white says a lot about color, it seems paradoxical. The more colors a photograph is assumed, the more emotions and ideas there are, but it is not precisely the abundance of colors in a photograph, or the excess saturation and intensity of the colors, it usually play as a negative factor, because it distracts the attention of the viewer. Colors are sometimes disturbing. They subtract and don’t add up.
Black and white is a classic that does not go out of style, black and white photographs, if well done, carry more emotional load, on the other hand, black and white does not work as well with all photographic themes, but when used well, it is able to captivate the viewer and make him almost one more character in the photo. Look at the example. By using black and white, the photographer manages to capture and convey the character’s gaze with all his strength, the same look would be less intense if the photo were in color.
If you manage to represent a scene something different from what it really is, you can seduce the viewer by surprise, the optical illusions attract attention by the game they offer, it is a kind of improvised mini-puzzle, because they challenge viewers and make them think about how the photograph is normally taken and the composition based to get this visual result.
Making a forced perspective doesn’t require special equipment, not even a camera to use. You can get great optical illusions simply with your mobile phone’s camera. Notice, does it take a little inspiration?
If you wanted to inspire, watch this video
The example I bring you is a prolonged exposure, but there are many ways to wake something up in the viewer by using shutter speed in general.
The human eye is used to seeing “normal” things if I can use the term. Photographing 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. Similarly, photographing with a shutter speed that is too fast allows us to obtain photographs that we are not used to seeing. .
Here is an excellent example of a very successful use of prolonged exposure. A slow shutter speed gives water that silky effect you see here. The photo seems to describe a typical landscape of another planet, but is it a wonderful place called Earth?
I recognize that color photography resists me a little, I find it a little more complex than black and white photography, I think it is very easy to fall into the mistake of taking full color photos without any sense. photography in which the colors have been collected, sorted and composed in a very specific way to achieve the effect sought by the photographer.
Photograph a set of colors because it has no merit for the photographer. Photographing a dress full of colors, in itself, is not a great job. In any case, the work will be the dress itself, not your photograph. Pay a little attention to your surroundings, you can get real gems in terms of photos.
Sometimes nature hides true visual treasures in unexpected, or rare, places and moments, if you develop the photographic eye, train it in time and take the trouble to find yourself in the right time and place, you will be more than satisfied.
Turn things around. Surprise the viewer where it is not expected, let him discover unusual sensations. One way to do this in photography is to do something as simple and accessible as rotating the camera.
The technique usually gives very good results in rain reflections, for example.
When it comes to conquering the viewer, the most difficult photo is the one taken from a normal and ordinary angle, at eye level, directly from the front. No more. We all fall for this error, firstly because it is convenient to photograph standing, looking through the viewfinder and taking pictures head on; and second, because it’s the vision that’s most natural to us. The point is precisely that the less common the photo, the more attractive and eye-catching it will be.
In your next photos, try experimenting with new viewing angles. Take it from places where you wouldn’t normally. You’ll be surprised by your own results.
look at the following example. Thanks to the unusual angle, you, the viewer, feel different. He feels more “involved” in the scene. Closer, with an ever closer relationship with the dog.
I let you know at the beginning of the article, nothing you’ve read so far will do you, not at all, if you don’t put it into practice. What’s more. What you’ve learned in this article will be totally useless if you let it go long before putting it into practice.
It’s just practicing that you’ll get results. And by the way, even if something seems difficult, most of the time it’s just a false feeling. You take the camera, a well-charged battery equipped with 2 or 3 memory cards and start experimenting. As soon as you see the first results, you don’t want to stop.
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