Travel | Maxwell Kruger

Belgium

18 Dec

I visited Belgium a few weeks ago for work. I didn’t have much time to shoot, but I bought a Canon 7D for the trip so I wouldn’t have to lug around a 1D. Below is a collection of a few shots. The whole gallery can be viewed here.

(Canon EOS 7D, 34 mm, 1/800, f/2.8, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 7D, 200 mm, 1/800, f/2.8, ISO 400)

The atomium is an structure built for the 1958 World’s Fair that represents the structure of iron.

(Canon EOS 7D, 16 mm, 1/1300, f/5.7, ISO 100) (more…)

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Yosemite 2011

5 Dec

Got back from California a few months ago, but I’m just getting around to posting the photos. We visited San Fransisco, Redwoods, and Yosemite. Overall, it was a great trip and I got to spend time with some old friends I hadn’t seen in a while. You can see my whole album of photos here.

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 35 mm, , f/5.7, ISO 100)

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Paris Panoramas

26 Aug

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.

Click on the images to view them larger and explore them.

(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:

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Back from Paris

22 Aug

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)

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India

22 Jan

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)

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Germany

6 Feb

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/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)

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Kenya

25 Jan

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.