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Astronauts Don’t Need Selfie Sticks to Photograph Themselves When They Have Floating DSLRs

Ron Leach | Jun 1, 2016

Selfie stick haters rejoice: Here’s a fun 14-second tutorial from Nikon Iran that illustrates everything you need to know to take great self-portraits with your DSLR without using a selfie stick or other form of camera support. Of course you need to be in zero gravity -- as the astronaut below demonstrates -- so your camera will gently float in front of you while tripping the shutter with a remote trigger.

So the next time you travel to the International Space Station, study up, give this technique a try, and please share your images with us!