The Perfect 2018 MacBook Pro Setup!#Helpful Post

The Perfect 2018 MacBook Pro Setup!#Helpful Post

yo guys johnathan here welcome to the

perfect macbook pro set up photographer

edition so over the years I've gotten a

ton of requests for a photography based

setup but the problem is I am NOT a

photographer so for this one I called a

mr. Tyler Stallman who's an insanely

talented photographer and this is what

he does for a living

 

now the centerpiece of the setup is not

something you would normally expect

honestly

had I not collaborated with Tyler I

don't think I would have found this

option either so this is a 62 inch

adjustable work table from husky which

is something you grabbed from Home Depot

rather than IKEA or furniture spot but

it worked surprisingly well

so Tyler's in the mists of redoing his

studio which is why he was looking to do

a desk setup and the number one priority

for him was to have everything kind of

locked and loaded on the desk but with

the freedom to move around Jonathan and

his team mounted a power bar underneath

the back of the desks there could just

be that one cable running off so that as

I move it around nothing's gonna get

caught everything's contained and when I

come there with my MacBook Pro I can

just put it down

plug one or two cables in and I'm ready

to go in choosing the actual desk it was

important to me that it was adaptable so

that for one meant that it could be

raised up and down it also has to kind

of be able to get the beat up because

when the camera gets put on it it

scratches the nice table in an open

studio space like this we're always kind

of moving things around depending on the

shoot so it was important that it was on

wheels so I can easily bring it from one

side of the room to the other depending

on what we're shooting now this

particular desk we couldn't get shipped

out in time while Tyler was out in LA so

we actually borrowed this from another

photographer sound Hopkins who also does

amazing work makes you guys check him

out but what was interesting is he

actually stained the top of this which

came out amazing now as far as the

computer Tyler's choice is a 20-18

15-inch MacBook Pro the way that we work

is a lot of travel photography and also

in studio stuff so it had to be a

15-inch MacBook Pro so that I've got

plenty of screen real estate on the go

and then when I come and plug it in I've

still got lots of power when I'm in the

studio now as far as the monitor goes we

don't want to go crazy expensive so we

kind of met in the middle of size and

performance this is a 32 inch 4k 10 bit

HDR monitor from Ben q and what's

awesome is that it connects via USB see

I thought that Ben cue monitor was a

really interesting choice it's it's

enormous it's 30 inches and it has P

three color space as well as 4k so it

looked pretty great but out of the box

their color accuracy wasn't quite

perfect so we used a spider five Express

to calibrate it so then it can match the

MacBook Pro monitor or a printer or any

other digital devices as well even if

you have a really high precision monitor

it's good to calibrate your colors about

once a month they gradually

so we went for a slightly more

affordable big monitor and just made

sure it was as accurate as possible now

it kind of ties everything together and

brings the hub or dock like

functionality to the setup is this

awesome

let's see external Thunderbolt 3 hard

drive which has card readers built-in

which is perfect for photographers see

if blazing fast storage come out with

quick access to upload your files and I

love the fact that it kind of just keeps

everything together and super clean and

minimal now as far as the mouse and

keyboard one the trusty Logitech

performance MX which you can't go wrong

with then an Apple wireless magic

keyboard with number pad we added a

full-size wireless apple keyboard

because I think one mistake they made on

the MacBook Pro is that those arrow keys

aren't the shape of a tee anymore so

when you're just feeling around with

your fingers it's hard to know exactly

what you're pressing until you look at

it in a Lightroom navigating left/right

up/down is something you're doing all

the time so this bigger keyboard gives

you more room for that it also has

another numerical pad which is great for

rating photos now without a doubt what

was the most interesting element of this

setup was the pallet control surface kit

this is the expert Edition which is kind

of this awesome modular control surface

which in this case Tyler used with

Lightroom and this you can assign to any

controls within Lightroom or Photoshop

and they're super modular so you can

shape them around your desk like I was

just getting started with them but it

made me want to have a lot more of them

they felt really good to use and I

especially just like to have them for my

exposure and white balance like it was

just that that's very useful right there

honestly was just kind of awesome seen

Tyler work in his element he's so fluid

and seamless you can tell it kind of

just comes second nature so this was

definitely a cool way to kind of enhance

his overall workflow if you curious on

why there's no speakers on this desk

Tyler just use your rocks a pair of

wired Sony headphones and it turns out

that the adjustable crank on the desk

works perfectly to hang those headphones

this desk turned out awesome so Jonathan

thanks for having me be a part of it

photographers are very particular about

their gear so it was great to put

something to custom together that was

just what I needed so that is the

perfect macbook pro set up for

photographers this would also work

amazing through 13 inch macbook pro as

well hopefully enjoyed the video if you

did and you are feeling like being

awesome makes you guys smash that like

button check out some of Tyler's work

link down below he does some amazing

work and if you're looking for more

setup inspiration I actually just posted

a secret office tour which is linked

here or down

as well this is Jonathan and I will

catch you guys later