No More MySpacey Self-Portraits
You’ve seen them – the Facebook / MySpace / Twitter’d self-portraits taken at arm’s length with a best-guess aiming to get you and one or two or even three other people all trying to crowd into the photo. What else are you going to do? Give your camera to a stranger? Leave your camera on a ledge with the self-timer so you can be in the photo too? Take turns? All of these options are completely ridculous.
Enter the XShot: Savior of the Hard-to-Get Photo
This video (it loops, so hit pause when you’re done) on ABC news explains exactly what the XShot is and how it works:
From XShot’s website (http://www.xshotpix.com/):
“You deserve to be in the picture too!
The XShot camera extender includes you in the pictures that you take! No more awkward photos from doing the single-arm stretch. With the XShot you can capture a full background instead of just faces. Because the XShot extends over 3 feet, you can have up to 10 people in the picture! The XShot closes to 9 inches for easy transport. Durable metal and only weighs 5 ounces!
The XShot is also great for making films and video diaries. Since the camera is pointing at you, you are always in the frame. Smile!”
Cool Ways People Use the XShot
Over on Flickr there’s an XShot photostream with albums of people using the XShot to get above-the-crowd shots at concerts and public gatherings, group portraits with themselves in the picture (and a lot of the background, too), and photos like this one below of the new XShot iPhone case (coming out soon!) attached to the XShot:
Follow @XShot on Twitter and enter my contest to win one of your very own (along with tons of other great “Blogger Costume” prizes)! Or if you can’t wait until after Midnight on Halloween, head on over to XShot’s site and use promo code RTXSHOT to save $5 off your very own XShot!
Per FTC regulations, I’m required to disclose that I already have my own XShot (and it’s FANTASTIC) that I won in another contest, but XShot was kind enough to donate an XShot camera extender to my contest to give away for promotion. All information above I am either in complete agreement with or is my own original opinion