We love looking at beautiful offices. No, wait... scratch that. We love looking at photographs of beautiful offices. You see, capturing the essence of your home is all about what you can fit in the frame. So the next time you go to snap a pic of your own gorgeously cord-free workspace, try out this new angle to properly show everything off.
Have you been doing your homework? We know plenty of you browse Apartment Therapy and Unplggd for steal-worthy ideas that you can put to use in your own home. Now it's time to show it off. Grab your camera, spread out your gear and catch a birds-eye view of your home office desk.
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We spotted this workspace, from Christopher C. Hayes, on Flickr. We love the way this top-down view lets us see all of his workspace and gear, from the MacBook Pro stashed in a drawer to the LaCie hard drive hiding behind his iMac.
And best of all? A vertical view is the only way to truly capture how hard you've worked to wrangle your workspace wires. When you can see all the way behind your desk-top devices, you'd better make sure you're not hiding any mess of tangled cables.
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Comments (14)
Love the first angle.
Ditto Hernando.
A very clear way to shoot. This looks great.
This is nothing new and makes people take pictures of unrealistic setups, I mean who places their iPad upside down and who has devices not plugged in all the time?
And didn't unplggd even do a competition that was like this or was that just the same type of angle with just electronics that you own?
I'm wondering how functional this set-up is.
1. No chord to his external hard drive to actually USE it.
2. No chord for syncing his iPad
3. No speakers? (Although I guess you could do wireless through an Ad Hoc setup ...but still.
I like it. It's almost 1:1 identical to my set up at home except it actually includes the necessary chords to work on all the things I use my computer for.
Wow, meant "cord," not "chord". Sorry for the brain fart.
@bluepanties:
I agree with most of your post, but the upside down iPad is probably because a) it's more aesthetically pleasing and b) that way it doesn't reflect the photographer
@mitchnetzer
i agree except on #3, he has an imac, no external speaker really needed. We listen to my imac at work all day with just the internals. Could it sound better, yes, does it work fine, yes. Same at home
Seems this is just for fun to look at, so functional or not, it's a pretty picture.
I don't like the fact that there's no place to put a sheet of paper or a book. As a student, I always have to write things down or learn from a book for my work. I wonder how some people can manage their work without a place for papers, pens or a place to rest their arms. This kind of setup, while being beautiful, wouldn't be very ergonomic for me. Plus I hope that MBP isn't used along with the iMac ...
Love that your setup looks beautiful regardless of angle, and must be nice place to work with and to look at while turned off
@bluepanties:
I always place my iPad and iPhone face down on the desk or table. I'm always afraid that something is going to fall on it and hit the glass. I only plug them in at night when I'm charging them.
I also have a portable Seagate HD there that's not plugged in, a wireless Magic Mouse and a MacBook so, this could be my setup as well except there's a coaster on the desk for a mug.
I really love when people take a well-formulated artistic image and translate it too literally, picking out the inconsistencies and inconveniences that are less of a detail than the overall intended aesthetic value.
Unnecessarily redundant tech is redundant.