Maxwell Kruger Photography

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)

I just got back from Germany. I start my new job on Monday, pending the snow doesn’t make it impossible. I was in Hamburg visiting my friend, Chris. We took a short trip from Hamburg to Berlin. It was quite a trip to Germany. I got my wallet stolen and then recovered (with cash and cards) by the police, we were ditched by our ride back to Hamburg from Berlin, and a 45 minute flight delay because of a little snow in Hamburg caused me to stay an extra night in London. Overall though, it was a ton of fun.

I’ve been shooting with the 1D Mark IV for a little under a month now and I have to say that I really like it. It’s a huge improvement overa all cameras that I’ve owned. My biggest gripe is that I’m unhappy with the ISO performance as I was expecting a performance boost over the 5D Mark II that I loved and instead experienced a downgrade. I have noticed that the files are considerably noisier than the 5D – where I wouldn’t hesitate to go up to 3200, I now think twice about going to 1600 on the 1D.

See the gallery here.

(Canon 1D Mark IV, 16mm, 1/15, f/2.8, ISO 200)

(Canon 1D Mark IV, 16mm, f/4, ISO 200)

(Canon 1D Mark IV, 16mm, f/4, ISO 200)

(Canon 1D Mark IV, 16mm, f/5.6, ISO 200)

(Canon 1D Mark IV, 16mm, 1/100, f/2.8, ISO 200)

(Canon 1D Mark IV, 35mm, 1/2000, f/2.8, ISO 200)

I’ve been back from Kenya for about two weeks and I’ve finished my photos just in time for my trip to Germany this week.
I’ve really been working on my editing technique which you can see in the photos.  We had a lot of fun in Kenya; saw lots of elephants, giraffes, buffalo, baboons, lions, cheetahs, leopards, and more.  I flew into Nairobi and visited four parks while there; Sweetwaters, Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru, and Amboseli National Park.

In total, I shot 5,366 photos, 70 videos, totaling 143GB.

All photos are available to see in this gallery.
The photos are geotagged and you can see them on a map by clicking on the “Map This” link above each photo or view all of them here.
New Feature: you can now order prints of the photos right from within the gallery!

I also shot some video directly on my still camera.  The Canon 5D Mark II captures really excellent video and, although none of it is production quality because I didn’t have the right supports and wasn’t there to capture video, it’s very interesting to watch nonetheless.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 135mm, 1/8000, f/2.8, ISO 400)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 135mm, 1/640, f/2, ISO 400)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 560mm, 1/4000, f/4, ISO 200)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 16mm, 1/30, f/2.8, ISO 200)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 135mm, 1/5000, f/2, ISO 200)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 560mm, 1/640, f/4.5, ISO 640)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 19mm, 1/200, f/9, ISO 50)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 400mm, 1/250, f/4, ISO 200)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 16mm, 1/500, f/4, ISO 200)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 400mm, 1/1000, f/2.8, ISO 1000)

Update: Here are two photos of me in action.

Finally finished my Utah photos from my trip over Thanksgiving. I wanted to finish these in time before I leave for Africa next week.

View the full gallery here.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 16mm, f/5.7, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 16mm, 20, f/2.8, ISO 6400)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 50mm, 1/1250, f/2.8, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 16mm, f/8, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 16mm, 1/1000, f/4, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 35mm, 1/1600, f/3.2, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 16mm, 30, f/2.8, ISO 6400)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 16mm, f/5.7, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 35mm, 1/8, f/4.5, ISO 1600)

After over a year (!), the film from the european delivery of my 2008 BMW Montego Blue 135i has been edited and posted online. It’s 23 mins and absolutely hilarious.

Thanks to Ian for finally editing the 7 hours of footage. Great job.

Here is the video, embedded. Click through to watch it in HD as it’s much higher quality and looks a lot better.

http://vimeo.com/5028367

I originally wrote about the trip here. There are plenty of great pictures from the trip.

Sorry for the lack of posts lately; things will be slower over the summer. I’ve been back from school for about a month now, though I’ve gone back and forth a few times since. I’ve been traveling a bit and working a lot. Trying to fly-fish as much as possible. Just came back from Ocean City, MD with a couple of friends from school. I made this photo of my friend, Erin, in our condo as we were heading out the door. I really liked the white background and the big light coming in from the sliding glass doors.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 135mm, 1/160, f/2.8, ISO 800)

This kid was having a blast on the boardwalk with his toy gun. His younger brother had a toy sword, which they were fighting with.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 135mm, 1/500, f/4, ISO 100)

We stopped to walk around and have dinner at the Inner Harbor on the way back.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17mm, 1/3200, f/4, ISO 400)

Traffic has been pretty bad on the way to work, lately. Yesterday (left), it took me over twice as long as normal to get into work and today (right) wasn’t much better and I left 30 minutes earlier. In case you’re wondering, I have to travel south on 695 and the blue dot indicates my location in each of these screenshots from my cellphone.

I have some cool photos coming soon. Last Friday, I went up on top of a building overlooking the Baltimore Inner Harbor with my dad (he owns a window cleaning business) at 5:30am to take some high-up photos of the city in the great early-morning light. It was pretty fun overall, but we just missed sunrise and I left my tripod at the door at home.

I did a similar shoot last year which produced this image. The buildings that I’m shooting from this year are on the other side of the harbor so should get a better view of all of downtown Baltimore. Click on the image to see the full 36 megapixel panorama.

I’m going to another building this Friday which supposedly has an even better view, and we’re going earlier to catch the sunrise. Be on the lookout for some stunning photos.

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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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)