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?
I think I might
It’s definitely worth doing. I did an evening course once a week for about two months or so I think. You learn a lot. I even started doing sports photography work once I learned how to understand photography properly.
Was it an in person course?
Yeah it was. If you can do one I’d recommend it as it’s kind of hands on and you’ll do stuff like long exposure etc at night. YouTube also has heaps of stuff now I’m sure.