With many of us social distancing and working from home, it may be a sudden change of pace to suddenly spend all of our time away from our regular routine. But we’re all in this together, and we’ve reached out to our Adorama content creators to see what they’re doing to keep healthy, stay well, and to beat the isolation blues.
Gavin Hoey: Portrait photographer and host of Take and Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey
Social media is more important than ever right now, but it can also become a bubble where you see and interact with the same people day in day out. So here’s my daily plan to share a little bit of positivity and break out the bubble.
- Find a small, but active, Instagram photographer, avoiding accounts I already follow
- Write a positive comment or better still, ask a question on their newest post
- Repeat with someone new tomorrow
Vanessa Joy: Wedding photographer and host of Breathe Your Passion with Vanessa Joy
Working out is keeping me sane! There’s a lot to be said for getting your heart rate up everyday. It improves your mood, lessens stress, and fights off that entire bag of pretzels that I ate last night. It also gives me a bit of a routine so I have something to look forward to and hey, a reason to get dressed — even if it’s just in my yoga pants.
My go-to routine right now is the 21 Day Fix from beachbody. I’m also a huge fan of Liift 4. I have a set of weights that I work with, but even if you don’t have that a program like PiYo could be your sanity saving grace. Oh, and if all else fails, there’s always YogaforPhotographers.com, too!
David Bergman: Concert photographer and host of Ask David Bergman
I believe it’s important to document our surroundings. We’re living through a historic event and it needs to be recorded for future generations. If you’re into photography, create images that show the world you are living in right now — even if it’s just inside your apartment.
Have your office set up on the couch? Home schooling your kids? Video happy hour with friends? Or just doing nothing? Photograph it. All of it. And if photography isn’t your thing, you can keep a diary, paint, sing, or create however you want. Our great-grandkids will want to see 2020 through each of us, as we lived it. Now is the time to document it.
Seth Miranda: NYC Photographer and host of Adorama Rewind
For the most part, I think that as creatives, we tend to stay in our own head, so being home solo hasn’t felt off to me. But being home and facing a ton of stuff I’ve put off left me with the challenge to see if I can finally push myself to take care of that “to-do” list.
I have tons of images I’ve shot that I’ve left on hard drives, and no one’s seen them. And my own YouTube channel has been a real focus point, allowing me to almost post a video per day on topics I can film right here at home to help others who may be out there trying to figure out how to use these platforms, or live stream, or even the need for video meetings and how to set up a better production value for it.
In the end, hands only lay idle because you allow them to. Now in the age of self-publication, it’s up to us to push forward. No one’s going to go tell you to shoot, to post, to record, to stream, to do anything, and focusing on igniting ambitions is the most sanity-gripping aspect of life right now.
