I’m going to outline my personal strategies for creating an efficient and organized workspace to boost productivity, specifically tailored to photographers. This includes tips on making the most of space, staying organized, and ensuring all necessary tools are accessible. By sharing my own experience, I hope to inspire fellow content creators to optimize their work environment for maximum efficiency and creativity.
Workbench Organization
Setting up a designated workbench in your home, studio, or office can significantly enhance your workflow. These workbenches, typically designed for tools, offer a convenient and customizable solution for photographers to store and access their camera gear and accessories. It has functional organization to ensure essential items are readily available, enhancing overall efficiency.
Workspace Top Configuration
The workspace top on the workbench serves as a dedicated area for immediate, temporary work. By keeping this space organized and ensuring essential tools are always within reach, it’s possible to facilitate a smoother creative process.
Power Station and Temporary Workspace
By creating a dedicated, easily accessible charging hub, photographers can eliminate the hassle of searching for and managing multiple chargers. This allows for a seamless integration of charging processes into the overall workspace, streamlining tasks and saving valuable time.
Charging Station for Accessories
Use practical accessories, such as personalized jewelry trays and magnetic hooks, to further optimize the workspace for efficient storage and accessibility. Ensure that everything needed for daily operations is immediately available, contributing to an environment conducive to productivity.
Utilizing Extra Space for Equipment Storage
Equipment such as tripods and monopods can be organized and easily accessed. By effectively utilizing every available space for organization and storage, photographers can reduce clutter and save time locating necessary items.
Conclusion
By implementing the strategies and tips outlined in this video, photographers can optimize their work environments to boost productivity and streamline their creative processes. From arranging charging stations to utilizing extra space for equipment storage, there are numerous effective methods to enhance the functionality of a workspace. The key takeaway is the importance of customization and organization to create a conducive environment for creative work and efficient operations.
Overall, the video provides practical insights and actionable advice for photographers looking to enhance their workspaces, ultimately contributing to a more productive and enjoyable creative experience. I encourage fellow photographers to consider these strategies and tailor them to their specific needs to create a workspace that aligns with their individual creative processes and enhances their productivity.
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Workspace Organization: Boosting Productivity for Photographers
Introduction to Workspace Efficiency
Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Let’s talk about workspaces, efficiency, charging what you need to charge, making sure things are organized nicely.
Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Hey. Hey. Today I wanna share something really interesting with you. This is something that has been a big work in progress for me for some time, and it’s something that I think that most photographers, if not all photographers, should have some sort of spot like this in their house, in their studio, in their office, whatever it might be.
Exploring the Workbench
Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Now you’re looking at this is literally a. Workbench that you can get at Home Depot. Okay. It’s literally a workbench you can get at Home Depot. It’s on wheels, it can roll around. It is a very common, at least in America, in the United States, is a very common product that a lot of creatives use.
Not for the tools like it’s designed for except for or rather but for camera gear for lenses, things like that.
Organizing the Drawers
Scott Wyden Kivowitz: So if [00:01:00] I was to shift my view right now and I open up this big drawer right here inside, it’s may not look organized, but it’s very nicely organized, which you can see I’ve got flashes over here.
I’ve got some batteries right here and some filter aspects some crystals. I’ve got a flashlight. I’ve got my neutral density filters all over here, some tripod accessories some MagSafe products right here and so on. And every drawer below here, so you can see there’s a bunch of drawers. Every drawer has, is organized a specific way.
The Magic of Workspace Top
Scott Wyden Kivowitz: But the magic of this, the re what I really wanted this for besides from the Storage, was this top right here. This works workspace top right here now. This workspace. The only thing that is permanent on here is this is my Eero. If you’re not sure what that is. An Eero is a mesh network.
I am not anywhere near the router. And there’s also a [00:02:00] fireplace, a chimney that is. In between me and the router, which all that brick and the metal, it all reduces the wifi. And I don’t have any ethernet in my house. So I have a mesh network, which allows me to do a back channel. So I have ethernet going to my desk.
The rest of this is purely for my power station or temporary workspace.
Charging Station Setup
Scott Wyden Kivowitz: So what I have first, this is the one of those newer Ulanzi lights. So it has a mini bowens mount. If I was to turn this on. About to get real bright in here, but you can see it is a warm, cool, right? It only goes warm or cool. It is pretty bright and it is always plugged in to the back here to keep a charger.
This is a battery, but it can also run right off of the power. Next up is actually my Fuji charge dual charger, so I can drop in two Fuji batteries just like that and have it charging two [00:03:00] of them on the spot as I need. The one right next to it is my Nikon one from small rig. So again, I can drop in a Nikon battery and have those charging as well.
Now I do have additional Nikon chargers, which are actually in the drawer, and I have three of them, which I can also plug in as well. But if I need a quick charge without having to, whip out these for a lot of batteries, I just drop my batteries into the small rig, which is more convenient. Then I have three of these Power X Chargers for all AA’s.
I rarely use AA’s anymore because I used to use the AA’s for my Nikon SB800’s. But I typically use my Godox strobes more than I do my little Nikon Speedlights. So I don’t need the double as much. But these chargers for rechargeable aas are the best. I have not had to repurchase one of these in a very long time, but I do have three, and these are also always plugged in behind.[00:04:00]
Now I got this beautiful thing that I don’t remember where it came from, but it is sentimental ’cause it was, I think my mom’s or my father’s, I can’t remember a hundred percent, but. It is a little like jewelry catch type of thing. It looks like an ashtray. It might actually have been an ashtray at one point, but quite often I will use it to put something on if I need to store something for a certain period of time on this workspace.
And this can be moved around, of course, as needed. All right.
Additional Workspace Features
Scott Wyden Kivowitz: oF course I also have things like my MagSafe chargers for my phone, so I have a couple USBC. Cables coming out from the surge protector that’s behind here, and I can just plug those in and start charging extra things like that. So again, you’re probably catching the idea that this workspace is all about charging everything I need to charge.
Now, finally, you probably have seen my video, and if you haven’t, definitely tried to check it out, my video on [00:05:00] these Godox batteries and how to keep, bring them back if they have died on you. Okay.
Magnetic Cable Management
Scott Wyden Kivowitz: Now what is really cool is that I’ve also got a cable for those and it’s strapped here.
So if I was to unplug this, back here I’ve got the mag a magnet hook, which, and then this little strap, which I then just hook it there, which keeps the cables from falling behind. Because this is magnetic, it’s nice that I can just. Put a magnet, be, behind here to hold whatever I need to. In fact, the entire power strip that is behind here is actually being held up by a magnet as well.
So that is in place finally non charging wise on the sides.
Mounting Equipment on the Sides
Scott Wyden Kivowitz: I also have this on one side, which actually the tripod that I’m currently using slips into, and this is even though it’s meant to hold a broom. My tripod just hangs on the on this mount, on the side of this bench. On the other side, [00:06:00] I have my iFootage, Cobra 3 Monopod, which is being held on by one of these hooks.
This can’t fit on the little broom style magnet, so I actually am using this to hold it on.
So there you go.
Conclusion and Recommendations
Scott Wyden Kivowitz: This is how I am utilizing this workbench as a charging station, as a workstation to keep me better organized with everything and more efficient with charging and accessories and things like that. If I was, I’m always working on improving it, I might wind up taking these away because I don’t use ’em quite as much.
The idea here is there’s a power strip behind here that is ready to go at any point for whatever I need to charge, whether it’s a USB-C, whether it’s USB and I need to convert it to USBC, whether it’s a battery like those like these where I can just drop ’em in, whether it’s a oxs battery, whether it is a light with a custom [00:07:00] charging port, instead of it being a USB-C, whatever it might be, ease access.
All in one spot. Highly recommend it.
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