A closer view of what sits on my desk in our office... Too see a wider angle view and more stuff Click Here, the description on the other photo also goes into much more detail about what I use and how I use it.
In short, about 5 years ago I uploaded a photo (now quite outdated) of what my desk looked like and the computing technology that I used... but now long overdue I have upgraded and replaced quite a bit. Things are now much simpler and easier to use... oh and I finally made the switch to Mac and have been loving life on OS-X.
What this photo shows is:
A 30" NEC monitor connected to an Apple Hex Core 3.33Ghz. Mac Pro w/12GB of RAM, dual 50GB OWC Solid State Drives(SSD), four 2TB Western Digital Black hard drives and a NewerTech eSATA card and two external 500GB Western Digital Studio Edition hard drives. The desktop has an Apple Wireless Keyboard, a Magic Trackpad and a Magic Mouse connected via Bluetooth and a Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 keyboard and a Microsoft LaserMouse6000 connected via USB2 sitting on a HumanScale 4G keyboard tray (it's designed for the Microsoft 'natural' form factor). Finally the Mac Pro has a Wacom Intuos3 tablet and a set of Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 speakers.
Laptop - An Apple 15" MacBookPro Core i5 2.4Ghz. notebook with 8GB of RAM and a 500GB Seagate MomentusXT hard drive (which also includes a 4GB SSD cache), with the upgraded high res. display. Attached is a 500GB G-Tech G-Drive Mini and a 1TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro external drives connected via Firewire800 and an Apple MagicMouse via Bluetooth.
There is more going on in terms of networking, storage, etc. but if you want to know more about that, click on this other image.
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konfral 33 months ago | reply
Very neat work space :)
H.Blgn [deleted] 33 months ago | reply
Nice Setup.
JamieDorman89 32 months ago | reply
Nice setup;)
Could you sent me the desktop picture
ulfwigr 32 months ago | reply
Very nice, I'll do the same soon :).
ncmichael2k3 30 months ago | reply
Very nice setup!
Jake Weber 19 months ago | reply
How on earth do you afford all of this fantastic equipment? I could not be more jealous. I stumbled upon your photostream today, and I've been browsing for a good half an hour now. I'm super impressed. This is what I wish to work for someday.
fensterbme 19 months ago | reply
@Jake Weber: Two things:
1.) I have a good day job which allows me to spend the money I make from my photography back on the equipment if I want/need too (i.e. I need zero of my photography income to eat, sleep, get me down the road)
2.) I shoot what pays, most of what I shoot is for clients and I get paid for the work. You will find lots of photographers that shoot tons of 'model' portfolios on a TFP/TFCD basis and do a ton of band shoots (both live and editorial), etc. but neither of those pay. I shoot mostly weddings and portraits, along with selling some works to companies and ad agencies, etc.
That said, don't be jealous... the reality is that I could get by with much less equipment and still turn out the same results. While having craptastic gear will indeed make somethings difficult, the reality is that a few decent lenses, a decent camera a pair of speedlites/triggers and your off to the races. What holds most of us back is not the equipment it's the skill, the imagination, or the drive to get better and/or think critically about our own work.
Finally my $.02 is, that if you want to shoot full time... Do not think you will make the money that you need to own all of this AND pay rent, have a car, health insurance, etc. I have lots of friends locally that are full time and well respected local photographers and none of them have as much gear as I do (except for the few folks who work for high end commercial studios, and their work owns the gear they don't)... the reality is it's very, very difficult to make it as a full time professional and even those who do end up at the end of the year not making a ton of cash.
Long before I had picked up a camera I had a career in technology, and I've chosen to not give that up (even though I thought of it for a while). My photography is a part-time side job, one I take very seriously and try my best at... but one that I know will never likely replace my primary source of income, and that's okay for me as I also love my day job (and IMO, my dad job is harder than photography, and it's a less crowded market).