Glenn Primm Photography

Glenn Primm Photography Documenting in photographs the rejuvenation of Old Los Angeles' historic core. All images (C) Glenn Primm unless otherwise noted.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez enters the rotunda of the Congressional House for the State of the Union Address, 02/06/2019. P...
02/08/2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez enters the rotunda of the Congressional House for the State of the Union Address, 02/06/2019. People dropped their britches.

Sequence, Pershing Square at night, Los Angeles, 2011(contact sheet, version 1)Nikon D1X, Nikkor 35mm f/2.8, 400 ISO @ 1...
07/15/2018

Sequence, Pershing Square at night, Los Angeles, 2011
(contact sheet, version 1)

Nikon D1X, Nikkor 35mm f/2.8, 400 ISO @ 1/6 sec

Hill Street, Los Angeles (c) 2012360 ISO, 105mm, 1/125 sec
06/29/2018

Hill Street, Los Angeles (c) 2012
360 ISO, 105mm, 1/125 sec

I moved downtown because I was inspired by images of the real life I saw down there. There were a lot of cliche images I...
05/29/2018

I moved downtown because I was inspired by images of the real life I saw down there. There were a lot of cliche images I saw and passed up. But as I spent more time, I met the people and some of them were wonderful for crazy but seriously unreasonable various reasons ... Rickey the Pirate was a staple, even though we all knew he wasn't really "homeless', he just looked that way. Still... everybody in the hood loved him ... I think that Rickey eventually died because his biological family basically abandoned him to the mean streets and his friends weren't really his friends ... It's all a wonder to me.

Here is one of my first pics taken with a Nikon digital camera after dumping analog film back in 2004.Somewhere back in ...
05/09/2018

Here is one of my first pics taken with a Nikon digital camera after dumping analog film back in 2004.

Somewhere back in about 2003 or so, I noticed that digital cameras were the coming thing, but they were also very, very expensive, maybe four times the cost of an analog body. I did some research and gave it some heavy thought, then sold a couple of my analog camera bodies and bought a slightly used big-ass, bulky and heavy Nikon D1 (at the time, the first generation flagship of digital technology, and a camera that Joe McNally had used to post the first-ever digital National Geographic cover and feature. Must be OK, right? I also bought a D1x for about a month's salary. (I've never bought any equipment on credit; I've always paid cash for everything.)

Well, I treated those sensors like I would an analog camera and continued shooting night scenes at RAW 800 / 1600 ASA (equivalent to TRI-X in Acufine, or Ektachrome 160 push +1 or +2, or so I thought, and the results were disappointing, to say the least). As it turned out, digital wasn't quite up to s***f, and the secret Kodak/ Sony/Nikon & Canon lab designers were giving us zero help up-front.

Still, the Adobe/Photoshop people were learning right along with me, and while all our technical skills fell short, we all pushed hard and we all learned along together - two hundred fifty years of chemical photo-sensitivity/reproduction, etc., compressed into less than half a decade. Talk about a steep learning curve. Still, perseverance counts and now I can go back into the archives and can recover some of the images that were pure mud at the time.

So, kids, DO try this at home, shoot into dark corners, shoot under almost no light and always, always, shoot RAW.



Nikon D1 = CCD sensor @ 2.7 MP, wizarded up to an alleged 3.87 MP (per Nikon tech papers; NASA s**t, in other words.) The above image is a CCD 2.7 MP image @ 800 ISO, and thrashed through Photoshop.

The D1x had an advanced CCD sensor @ a real 6 MP, and reasonable noise suppression.

With the D2, Nikon switched to CMOS sensors. And the rest is history.

Stepping out the back door of a friend's studio in downtown LA, the other day, I saw this ...
03/31/2018

Stepping out the back door of a friend's studio in downtown LA, the other day, I saw this ...

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