Krchive part 4 (1998)
I recently found a bunch of old photos, mainly pre-digital, on an old CD-ROM. It was interesting looking back at the emergence of the "Miss K" character during the 90s. Here are a few of the ones that caught my eye...
I took this (→) I was getting ready to go out, sometime around Christmas.
It isn't a particularly nice picture but it's kind of significant for me at least, being I think the very first "arm's length" self-portrait I took with my very first digital camera.
It was a Casio QV-10A and I got it very very cheap in New York as it was over a year old and already obsolete. It only took 320x200 pixel shots and the JPEG artefacting was something atrocious, but it gave a certain luminescent quality to the closeups it took which I liked.
It had a swivel lens which allowed you to look at the LCD while shooting. Which was nice.
I replaced it with a 1.3 megapixel model soon after, but the digital floodgates had been opened...
A friend was fiddling with the new camera and took this (→) nice angle, Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still-esque, I felt.
After a bit of mucking about in Photoshop to reduce the colour it's got a nice atmosphere, to which the crappy quality actually adds.
I got stupendously drunk later this night. Luckily I left the camera at home.
Soon, I was going mad with my first digital camera. I like these shots.
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