The propagation of non-linear electromagnetic waves is carefully analyzed on a curved spacetime created by static spherically symmetric mass and charge distribution. We compute how non-linear electrodynamics affects the geodesic deviation and the redshift of photons propagating near this massive charged object. In the first order approximation, the effects of electromagnetic self-interaction can be distinguished from the usual Reissner-Nordström terms. In the particular case of Euler-Heisenberg effective Lagrangian, we find that these self-interaction effects might be important near extremal compact charged objects.Generalizations of Maxwell electrodynamics have been proposed since it was established and they are motivated by several reasons such as experimental constraints on the eventual photon mass [1-3], classical aspects of vacuum polarization [4,5], electrodynamics in the context of strings and superstrings [6-10], etc. Among the several generalizations, there is a group known as Nonlinear Electrodynamics (NLED) which is characterized by presenting nonlinear field equations. Examples of NLED are Born-Infeld theory [11][12][13][14] and Euler-Heisenberg electrodynamics [4]. The former was proposed to limit the maximum value of the electric field of a point charge [15] and the last arises as an effective action of one-loop QED [16].Since the decade of 1980, several applications of NLED in the context of gravitation were proposed [17][18][19][20][21][22], including applications to cosmology [23][24][25][26][27][28][29] and spherically symmetric solutions of charged Black Holes (BH) [30][31][32][33][34][35][36]. Moreover, generalizations of Reissner-Nordström solution with NLED were studied where stability and thermodynamics properties of the BH were analyzed [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45]. In particular, the geodesic motion of test particles around Born-Infeld BH was studied in Linares et al. [46] and references therein. However, in most of the papers found