Maxwell Kruger Photography

(Canon EOS-1D Mark II, 35 mm, 1/8000, f/3.2, ISO 400)

This weekend was the inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix in Baltimore City. When I first heard there was going to be a race through the city, I couldn’t be more thrilled as I’m a huge car enthusiast. I’d planned to attend for the past year and I was fortunate enough to get credentials to photograph it. My credentials gave me great access trackside and I was able to get extremely close to the cars flying by (sometimes literally) at over 160mph.

The racing occurred throughout Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On Friday, my plane from Vegas (for work) landed around 3:30am and I had to be downtown at 6:30 for a photographers meeting…that was a rough day.  I spent it mostly walking around to gain familiarity with the track.

Saturday was the American Le Mans race, which I photographed mostly from the east side of the track.

Sunday was the IndyCar race.  I planned to spend most of the time on the west half of the track, but also wanted to see if I could get to a high vantage point.  I looked for the tallest building I could find over the track and knocked on the front door.  The concierge let me in and said she would call her boss to see if I could shoot from the roof.  She hung up the phone and said “he’ll call back in 10 minutes” – not the most promising response.  A few minutes later a man came out of a back door, shook my hand, and said “come on up.”  We took the service elevator to the top of the building and exited onto a terrace.  The view was awesome and overlooked the whole track.  I was able to shoot wides of Baltimore and really tight stuff of the track.  The guys on the roof could not have been more helpful and accommodating. I ended up spending over half the IRL race shooting from the roof because there were so many cool possibilities.

Below is a mix of American Le Mans Series and IndyCar Series race photos. A big thanks to Nikon Professional Services for lending me a 600mm lens and a D3S – lighter and longer than my Canon 400! Also thanks to the guys for letting me up on their building – some of my better images couldn’t have been done without their help.  (more…)

Shot some panoramas in Paris (see gallery). I got a 60″ canvas print for my wall of the Louvre from Artistic Photo Canvas. It looks great (see below). Please let me know if you are interested in prints. E-mail me at maxwell@maxwellkruger.com.

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(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 22 mm, 5″, f/4, ISO 100, 9 exposures)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 25 mm, 1.6″, f/8, ISO 100, 6 exposures)

On my wall:

Been on the road a lot lately. Expect a lot more to come. Here are some of my photos from Paris. Whole album here.

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 70 mm, 1/640, f/2.8, ISO 400)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 200 mm, 1/1250, f/2.8, ISO 400)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 35 mm, 1/200, f/2.8, ISO 400)

Eiffel Tower.

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 25 mm, 1/1000, f/2.8, ISO 100)

Atop the Eiffel Tower gives some unique viewpoints.

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 16 mm, 1/800, f/2.8, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 200 mm, 1/640, f/2.8, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 16 mm, 1/160, f/5.7, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 90 mm, 1/800, f/2.8, ISO 1250)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 200 mm, 1/400, f/4, ISO 100)

30 second exposure of the Musée du Louvre erases most people.

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 16 mm, 30″, f/9, ISO 100)

We were there for the last stage of the 2011 Tour de France.

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 200 mm, 1/60, f/16, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 100 mm, 2″, f/14, ISO 500)

Testing out my new light and octobox. Didn’t have an assistant and it was really windy, so I only got the opportunity to take a few shots.

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 70 mm, 1/125, f/2.8, ISO 50)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 200 mm, 1/250, f/4.5, ISO 50)

Preakness this year was a lot of fun as usual. I spent the day before preparing to cover it and building a remote camera system.  Ian and I ran around to electronic stores and Home Depot gathering electrical and audio components to put together a system so that I could put cameras in various places to capture the race.

On the day of the race, we showed up early to set up and test the cameras.  After a few hours of setup, we were done until the 6PM race.

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I was sitting at my desk last night doing some work when I was interrupted by a few repeated flashes of light. I looked out my window and there was quite an electrical storm happening in the distance. I decided to point a camera out the window to see what I would get. After about an hour of photography, this crazy photo showed up on the back of my camera.

(Canon EOS 40D, 85 mm, 5s, f/5.6, ISO 200)

Update: I have received many requests about prints. They are available here.

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I just got back from India a few days ago. Here are some of my photographs. You can see the whole gallery here.

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 65 mm, 1/300, f/4, ISO 200)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 35 mm, 1/40, f/2.8, ISO 1250)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 200 mm, 1/1000, f/5.6, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 200 mm, 1/500, f/5.6, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 40 mm, 1/125, f/4, ISO 400)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 65 mm, 1/40, f/4, ISO 320)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 24 mm, 1/15, f/4, ISO 3200)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 47 mm, 1/160, f/4, ISO 500)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 200 mm, 1/320, f/4, ISO 200)

Me at the Taj Mahal:

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 35 mm, 1/1600, f/2.8, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 110 mm, 1/80, f/2.8, ISO 1600)

(Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT, 105 mm, 1/800, f/4, ISO 400)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 105 mm, 1/160, f/4, ISO 1000)