I recently bought the unseen by Saul Leiter, beautiful book with a lot of great photos.

I am curious though as someone who’s never taken a photography class, what are the best ways to learn from a book like this?

-what should I be looking for? -compositions? -should I be trying to guess how he took certain shots? -the lighting?

Any tips would be helpful as I love his style and I love street photography and would love to be able to learn from this book rather than simply appreciate the beautiful photos… or maybe that’s just part of it?

  • Mmatthew93@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’d say composition is the most important thing, because light, color, shapes, framing, are all parts of the composition. You can have the same elements, but put them indifferent order, and the composition and final result will be different or incoherent.

    I suggest reading ‘framed ink’ 1 and 2 to learn a lot about composition, then you’ll start to see things in photography, movies etc. That otherwise would be hard to even notice.

    With this knowledge you’ll be able to consciously read all images instead of just having vague feelings while looking at them