If you thought the Selfie Arm was a strange idea, check this out: the SelfiePICTEE is a T-shirt that has a fold-down bounce reflector on the front that provides a quick fix for the harsh shadows on your face when snapping a selfie.
The reflector on the front of the shirt folds down to light your face up.
The whole thing appears to be a joke or an art project like the Selfie Arm, but the Kickstarter campaign for funding this idea is quite real — 5 people have already pledged $395 toward the $500,000 goal at the time of this post. Here’s a short video introducing the idea:
“I have taken a lot of selfies, and I have worked on a lot of photo shoots and a lot of video shoots,†says inventor Chuck McCarthy. “The one simple thing that can make the difference between a shot looking like crap and a shot looking like amazing gold magic is a metallic bounce. But most of the time, you need someone else to hold the bounce.â€
“But… what if the bounce was attached to your shirt!? This was the idea that started the SelfiePICTEE.â€
An ordinary selfie (left) compared to a selfie illuminated with the SelfiePICTEE (right)
A pledge of $20 on Kickstarter will be rewarded with a SelfiePICTEE if/when it does launch — but McCarthy has a long ways to go before this project reaches its half-million-dollar goal. For a cheaper DIY solution, you can attach your extra metal pizza pan to your clothing.
(via Kickstarter via Amateur Photographer)
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.