Maxwell Kruger Photography

Just got back from a couple of days in Islamorada. Had a great time, the water was so green and the temperature so warm.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17mm, 1/500, f/8, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 300mm, 1/2000, f/8, ISO 100)

The house we were staying at had some kayaks which we used every day. One day, Chris and I took one about 4 miles out to a ghost island, Indian Key. It was an old island once inhabited by Spanish Treasure hunters and Indians but now deserted.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 300mm, 1/5000, f/4, ISO 100)

Had a fun photo shoot on the beach with Chris’ girlfriend, Tessa.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 50mm, 1/200, f/11, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 29mm, 1/200, f/9, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17mm, 1/200, f/11, ISO 100)

Woke up for the sunrise:

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17mm, f/4, ISO 100)

We drove to Key West and rented a boat for half of the day. It was really nice; the weather was warm and it was fun to swim in the ocean along the boat.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 300mm, 1/640, f/5.6, ISO 100)

More images after the jump.

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I had the opportunity to photograph Amanda and Jordan two days ago. I took them to a cool railroad bridge that I had spotted a few days earlier. We started really late so it was pitch black under the bridge. Had to light the scene with my car’s parking lights so we could see what we were doing. Used mainly 580ex II into a Lastolite Ezy-box softbox with sometimes a gelled 430ex behind. Had some difficulty firing the flashes with my ST-E2 – it was really unreliable. I regretted not bringing my pocketwizards with me. I don’t know how Joe McNally does it.

Stay tuned for more images to come as I edit them.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 50mm, 1/30, f/3.2, ISO 400)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 50mm, 1/50, f/4.5, ISO 400)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 50mm, 1/30, f/5.6, ISO 400)

Spent a few days in New York recently. Didn’t take many pictures, but here are some fun ones. Kept the 300mm on most of the time. Went a little overboard editing on some, trying out some new techniques.

The bus driver showed up an hour late because of daylight savings time.

Auto white balance on my 5D? What?

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17mm, 1/20, f/4, ISO 6400)

That’s better, kind of.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17mm, 1/20, f/4, ISO 6400)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 300mm, 1/500, f/4, ISO 400)

Nice of Jesus to show up.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 300mm, 1/200, f/4, ISO 400)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 300mm, 1/6400, f/4, ISO 800)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 300mm, 1/1600, f/4, ISO 800)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 300mm, 1/500, f/4, ISO 800)

My fav:

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 300mm, 1/4000, f/4, ISO 800)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 300mm, 1/320, f/4, ISO 3200)

(Canon 1D Mark II, 300mm, 1/500, f/4, ISO 1600)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17mm, 1/800, f/4, ISO 3200)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17mm, 1/800, f/4, ISO 3200)

(Canon 1D Mark II, 135mm, 1/1000, f/2, ISO 1000)

Update: Steve Manuel took this picture of me adjusting my camera during halftime. Another photographer had placed a camera in the catwalks about an hour after I set mine up, but didn’t see either of mine so he set his Pocketwizard on the same channel as mine. Luckily it was pointed at the same place as my cameras so we had no problems firing each other’s cameras. Quick fix during halftime to switch channels.

This year, I covered THON in a unique way: from the catwalks. Last year, I got some really cool shots from going high up in the stands of the Bryce Jordan Center arena, but this year, I worked with some folks at the BJC to get some cameras up into the catwalks above. I’ve been placing remote cameras up there for basketball games, so this was not much different, other than the amount of cameras I used.

(Nikon D2Hs, 10.5 mm, 1/50, f/2.8, ISO 640)

In total, I covered THON with a total of 6 cameras, all doing totally different things. I had two cameras hooked up in the catwalks as straight remotes; one with a fisheye to cover the entire arena, and one with a 70-200 pointed directly down to get a tight overhead shot. I also had two handheld cameras that I used when I walked around the floor. The next two cameras are the cool ones.

The final sit down at the end of the 46 hours, shot with my overhead remote at 70mm.

(Canon EOS 40D, 70mm, 1/160, f/4, ISO 800)

On the Thursday before THON, I set up a camera connected to a borrowed friend’s laptop to record a timelapse of the entire thing, starting at the end of the basketball game that Thursday night to load out on Sunday evening. The computer was scheduled to take a photo every 30 seconds for the entire period to be later strung into a movie. The next day after the basketball game, on Friday before THON started, we were able to lower the scoreboard and attach a camera to the bottom with my 17mm lens. Since the scoreboard is directly centered in the arena, I figured it would get really cool shots from above with a wide angle lens. I couldn’t attach a laptop to the camera, so I used an intervalometer (TC-80N3) to record a photo every minute.

Both timelapse captures turned out extremely well and produced very entertaining videos. I am still working on the final cuts of the videos and will hopefully release them sometime this or next week.

I also photographed my friend Dan‘s band, Lowjack, who were lucky enough to play the opening set of the weekend.

(Nikon D300, 10mm, 1/125, f/4, ISO 1600)

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I just spent the morning and afternoon today coding a little bit of
software to allow me to post from my cellphone. I really wish that I
had had this during my last trip to Peru, because I could have posted
updates with pictures every few days.

It works pretty well, so I should be able to post on the go, now.

I’m really busy this weekend with THON, setting remote and timelapse
cameras, so expect some cool media in the near future.

Maxwell
Sent from my iPhone

I finally was able to set up some cool overhead remotes for Men’s Basketball yesterday for the game against Wisconsin. I set the camera up on Friday with the help of Ed. We woke up early and climbed up into the catwalk of the BJC, hauling up a bunch of mounts, cameras, and lenses. I wasn’t sure what focal length or camera would be good to use, so I brought an assortment of lenses and cameras to try. What worked best was my 40D with the 70-200 2.8 at around 175mm.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17mm, 1/100, f/4, ISO 3200)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 50mm, 1/30, f/2, ISO 3200)

I attached the camera to a Bogen Magic Arm and Super Clamp and clamped it to a pipe in the rafters. After pointing it down and framing the shot, I had Ed get on a ladder right by the basket and I focused it using Live View. Shots came out pretty good. It really provides a totally different view of the game from above.

(Canon EOS 40D, 168mm, 1/800, f/2.8, ISO 1600)

The game was pretty bad, we ended up losing after playing really badly in front of 14,000 fans. Catch more photos of the game after the break.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17mm, 1/125, f/4, ISO 1600)

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