HOW TO YBK

If you missed it, the Pivot Project Live session: Find Your Focus should be your first stop. Pro advisers and photographers Jed Palmer (Sierra MS, CO) and Mike Simons (Corning-Painted Post HS, NY) presented so many helpful ways to navigate photography in pandemic situations. They even covered how to organize and clean staff cameras.

Portrait pages: Jed and Mike talked about ideas for dealing with portraits — while some schools are business as usual, others are already deciding to do selfie submissions. We’re here to tell you that it can be (and has been) done. Click to download this collection of non-traditional portrait pages.

Solution on the horizon: Our programmers are actively working on a software solution that will allow you to accept DIY portraits from parents and process them to build portrait pages. So, stay tuned for more!

Directions for moms: One of our great reps shared this PDF with us with very specific directions on how to take a portrait at home.

And, don’t stress. All of the experienced advisers want their newer colleagues to know they are not alone. “We can’t hold ourselves to past milestones and benchmarks,” Simons said. “I’ve never felt more like a rookie, even when I was a rookie,” Palmer said.

You’ve got this!