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?
Best way to learn is to just go out and shoot/experiment. Combine that with tutorials from YouTube and the likes and you’ll learn way more and probably faster than any course out there. Books contain very useful info but it’s still just theory.
Yea, I love going out and shooting, just always feel like a bit of direction would be good.