Tony Bramley FRPS has also been on a Saul Leiter journey. This brief video shows some of his ‘Leiter’ images compared with the Leiter original.
I love the Saul Leiter quote that Tony has found:
A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person
Saul Leiter
An Update on My Saul Leiter Journey
I am enjoying studying one photographer in depth. We can all appreciate Leiter’s work, the layers. the seasons, the blur, the abstract composition etc. However. reproducing the Leiter colour palette has been a trial. I know it is early Kodachrome but getting that look has been impossible. Then I think that I am recreating the Saul Leiter style, rather than copying directly, the look of his images. It is the feel I am after, and then incorporating that quality into my own street style.
It is an amazing thing but researching Saul Leiter has made me fall in love with street photography all over again. Especially, the excitement of getting out there not knowing what you will photograph.
Street photography will never win you any prizes, the very randomness of taking pictures in the instant means that judges will inevitably fail it. There is bound to be something that does not meet their photographic algorithm. However remember, when you are out there alone on the street with your camera, you are living your best photography