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Photography Workspace in Vancouver, Canada

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    • March 14, 2022
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    Lloyd’s Photography Workspace in Vancouver, Canada
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    Name: Lloyd Carig

    Location: Vancouver, Canada

    Occupation: Live chat support / Photographer on the side

    Room size: 7 m² (75 ft²)

    Cost of the setup: ~$6K

    Social media: Instagram, YouTube

    Hello! Tell us a bit about yourself

    Hi, my name is Lloyd. I’m a father of two beautiful children and a husband to an amazing wife.

    I work full time as live chat support for one of the major telecom companies in Canada.

    On the side, I’m a photographer. When it comes to paid work, I shoot family portraits. It’s been fun!

    Other than that, I take photos for myself — mostly landscapes & cityscapes, as well as some product or tech stuff that you can find on my Instagram page.

    A moody desk setup with walnut vibes
    Before the COVID-19 happened in March 2020, Lloyd had already been considering setting up his own space. “That’s when I started looking for some ideas on Instagram and Pinterest,” he says

    I initially picked up a camera to take photos of my sneaker collection. I was inspired by the sneaker pages you’d see on Instagram.

    That’s where the passion began.

    After taking photos of countless sneakers, I started to try and learn different branches of photography.

    It opened an entirely new world for me.

    I’ve been shooting seriously for about five or six years now. Currently, I’m learning more about filming stuff. I started my fairly new YouTube channel where you can see my previous workspace.

    And for someone who never bothered about shooting videos and filming stuff, I think the first video did a pretty great job.

    “If I didn’t start working from home and if COVID didn’t happen, we probably would be looking at a sneaker room instead of a home office”

    It helped with a bit more exposure on a different platform which also translated to my Instagram growth.

    That Instagram growth slowly opened opportunities for me to work with different brands and publications.

    It didn’t seem possible when I started taking photos of my sneakers.

    Take us through your setup

    Item Model
    Monitor Dell U3818DW
    Monitor mount Humanscale M8.1
    Monitor light bar BenQ lightbar
    Laptop M1 Mac Mini
    Speakers Kanto Yu2
    Headphones Sony MDR 7506
    Keyboard Nuphy Air 75, Logitech MX Keys for Mac, Keychron K3, Azio Corp retro keys
    Mouse MX master 3, Apple Magic trackpad
    Chair Autonomous ErgoChair Pro
    Desk shelf Grovemade desk shelf system
    Desk mat Grovemade desk pad
    Mouse mat Grovemade mouse pad
    Wall shelf Grovemade wood wall shelf
    Tablet iPad mini 6
    Desk IKEA IDÅSEN

    My family and I moved to a new place about a month ago. That meant I would need to design an entirely new space which was a really fun process.

    The office space that I have is pretty much the den in the apartment — not too big, 9×7,5 ft.

    At first, I tried to just bring the old setup to the new space. But then I slowly realised that the desk I had was too wide. That means it was taking up too much space without any good reason.

    That made me look back at my old desk setup and borrow just that old feel from it. It’s the one with walnut aesthetics.

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