Give yourself a donut

Ex-Microsoft employee comes up with a new type of selfie

Former Microsoft employee Karen Cheng came up with an original way to film herself on a mobile phone called a donut selfie. a video demonstrating the advantages of the new technique over regular selfies The girl posted on YouTube.

To make a donut selfie-style recording, you need to smoothly move your smartphone around your head so that the trajectory of its movement resembles a donut. In this case, not only the face of the device owner, but also part of the surrounding space should be included in the frame.

When the camera is opposite your temple, you need to quickly bring the phone closer to you. This allows you to create a transition in the video with darkening, which is necessary in order to continue filming in a new place and get, when connecting several video selfies together, the effect of a person suddenly moving in time and space.

To better explain how to properly take a donut selfie, Karen Cheng has launched a separate website dedicated to the trend. At the time of writing this note, three training videos have been published on it.

In one, Cheng advises using the slow-motion feature available on the latest iPhone models “for more drama,” as well as an additional wide-angle lens that allows you to capture more space in the frame.

During the second video, the girl examines various options for processing and gluing several “donut selfies” into one large video.

According to Karen Cheng, donut selfie is a much more interesting and unusual way to take pictures of yourself on a smartphone than standard photographs of this kind that are boring to everyone.

This is a great way to “capture” a moment in time and make a short movie about your own life. I can’t wait to see what else users will come up with based on my technique - for example, “doughnut selfies” when traveling or “double donut selfies” of couples in love, when the camera “enters” one person’s head and “comes out” of the other’s head . Karen Cheng

Previously, Karen Cheng became known as the creator of the “ 100 days ” project (Give it 100). An employee of an American technology company created a website to publish a series of videos about how people learn something over the course of 100 days, gradually starting to do it better and better.

The project was preceded by a video demonstrating how Cheng learned to dance “from scratch” over the course of a year. The recording quickly became popular on YouTube, collecting a total of more than 4.5 million views.

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