@randalljhodges
Sunset Mt Rainier with Lenticular Cloud from the Wonderland Trail in Mt Rainier National Park in Washington
"A CLASSIC" A little story for you. This is one of the images that helped launch my career as a professional Landscape photographer. I had been doing photography professional for a couple of years, but had not quit my job as a chef/Restaurant manager yet, and this was one of the images that helped make that possible. It was shot in 2003 on an 11 day backpack trip all the way around Mt Rainier on the Wonderland Trail. This is shot on Kodak Elite Chrome Slide Film, before digital, and before Photoshop and post-processing took over everything. It was also images like this that gave me my niche as being "Not Digitally Altered", which through time has turned into "Old School, All in Camera" shooting. Shortly after I shot this image, I took my photography full time. As a showing artist out on the Northwest Art Circuit, people would come in my booth and say stuff like "Nice Photoshop Dude" then I would show them a sheet of my slides and have them hold them up to the light and compare....Then I would get something like "Wow! you really know what you are doing" And my "Old School, All in Camera" Style was born, as you could not alter a slide. I shot slide film well into the digital age. So long all my students were digital, and I was the only one shooting film. Then two things happened: the Cannon 5D Mark 2 came out, which had the ability to match my slide film, and out of the 400 publishers I worked with worldwide, 80% dropped film. So I switched over and after about 2 weeks of testing, I had mimicked all my old films right in the camera and continued to shoot that Old School Style. I continue that "All-In Camera, Old School Style" to this day, and I truly believe it is why I have now been in business for 18 years, 15 of them being full time. This is Sunset Mt Rainier with a Lenticular Cloud from the Wonderland Trail in Mt Rainier National Park in Washington. It was shot at f/22 and was a 2 second exposure with a 3 stop graduated split neutral density filter on Kodak Elite Chrome Slide Film, and as always, All In Camera! Thank you so much for looking and reading!
Images of the West
Randall J Hodges Photography
Sunset Mt Rainier with Lenticular Cloud from the Wonderland Trail in Mt Rainier National Park in Washington
"A CLASSIC" A little story for you. This is one of the images that helped launch my career as a professional Landscape photographer. I had been doing photography professional for a couple of years, but had not quit my job as a chef/Restaurant manager yet, and this was one of the images that helped make that possible. It was shot in 2003 on an 11 day backpack trip all the way around Mt Rainier on the Wonderland Trail. This is shot on Kodak Elite Chrome Slide Film, before digital, and before Photoshop and post-processing took over everything. It was also images like this that gave me my niche as being "Not Digitally Altered", which through time has turned into "Old School, All in Camera" shooting. Shortly after I shot this image, I took my photography full time. As a showing artist out on the Northwest Art Circuit, people would come in my booth and say stuff like "Nice Photoshop Dude" then I would show them a sheet of my slides and have them hold them up to the light and compare....Then I would get something like "Wow! you really know what you are doing" And my "Old School, All in Camera" Style was born, as you could not alter a slide. I shot slide film well into the digital age. So long all my students were digital, and I was the only one shooting film. Then two things happened: the Cannon 5D Mark 2 came out, which had the ability to match my slide film, and out of the 400 publishers I worked with worldwide, 80% dropped film. So I switched over and after about 2 weeks of testing, I had mimicked all my old films right in the camera and continued to shoot that Old School Style. I continue that "All-In Camera, Old School Style" to this day, and I truly believe it is why I have now been in business for 18 years, 15 of them being full time. This is Sunset Mt Rainier with a Lenticular Cloud from the Wonderland Trail in Mt Rainier National Park in Washington. It was shot at f/22 and was a 2 second exposure with a 3 stop graduated split neutral density filter on Kodak Elite Chrome Slide Film, and as always, All In Camera! Thank you so much for looking and reading!
Images of the West
Randall J Hodges Photography