Hi Martin,
thank you for your words. About my process: it is simple.
I used a tripod in some photos of Breizh (Bretagne) but these are the only ones I have used the tripod with the OM-1n. So I usually shoot hand held.
My photographic style is "slow". First I look and look... and I feel. When I see that "something" is going to be happen I use my lightmeter (Sekonic L-308s) (before I have been looking for light) and after I look for the "frame" of the photo.
If there is a person, I try to approach slowly and sometimes I talk with him/her. But sometimes, when I see there is a natural moment I take the photo before and after I talk to the person and I ask for his/her permision for the photo that I have taken before...
for me, knowing people is really important, not only take the image...
and I like to place the "human" in the Nature, looking balance between them (human/Nature)... I try it...
I don't shoot a lot, because film is expensive for me. But I only shoot film in the last year (or more). Some years ago, I shot a lot, now I look a lot, I feel a lot, I think a lo... before shooting.
About post-processing: there are some photos I post process more, but all the time I touch levels, no more.
Now I have began to print in the darkroom, with a meopta Axomat 5, and I can see it is exactly the same way I post process my scanned photos. But when I have the photo on the paper (Adox MCC 110 FB V) it is so different from my prints from a Canon printer with Hahnemühle paper... I love the darkroom prints. 🙂
I hope I have explained my process...
Xabier.
