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Israel

Maxwell — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:45:50 +0000

I recently returned from a trip to Israel. I had an amazing time. We swam in the dead sea, spent a night in the desert, climbed Masada, and spent a few days in Jerusalem among many other things. Overall, it was one of my favorite trips that I’ve ever been on.

Some of my images are below. You can see the full gallery here.

As a plus, all my photos were geotagged using the Canon GP-E2. You can see the map of where I went here.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark III, 16 mm, 1/1, f/23, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark III, 16 mm, 6s, f/2.8, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark III, 16 mm, 1/1250, f/5.6, ISO 100)

Sunrise from Masada.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark III, 200 mm, 1/800, f/5.6, ISO 500)

From the top of Masada.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark III, 16 mm, 1/100, f/5.6, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark III, 16 mm, 1/500, f/11, ISO 400)

The dead sea.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark III, 35 mm, 1/200, f/5.7, ISO 100)

Jerusalem

(Canon EOS 5D Mark III, 200 mm, 1/640, f/5.6, ISO 100)

Prayer at the Western Wall.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark III, 200 mm, 1/500, f/2.8, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark III, 200 mm, 1/320, f/2.8, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark III, 200 mm, 1/125, f/5.6, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark III, 34 mm, 1/250, f/5.6, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark III, 35 mm, 1/800, f/5.6, ISO 100)

Full gallery here.

Belgium

Maxwell — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:21:35 +0000

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)

(Canon EOS 7D, 16 mm, 1/1000, f/5, ISO 200)

(Canon EOS 7D, 35 mm, 1/2000, f/2.8, ISO 200)

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

(Canon EOS 7D, 16 mm, 1/800, f/2.8, ISO 400)

(Canon EOS 7D, 16 mm, 1/200, f/2.8, ISO 100)

Yosemite 2011

Maxwell — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:16:52 +0000

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)

Hit the jump for more.

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 16 mm, 1/500, f/5.6, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 300 mm, 1/500, f/5.6, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 24 mm, 1/800, f/5, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 16 mm, 1/2000, f/2.8, ISO 200)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 35 mm, 1/1600, f/2.8, ISO 200)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 34 mm, 1/6400, f/2.8, ISO 200)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 16 mm, 1/1250, f/2.8, ISO 640)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 16 mm, 1/2000, f/4, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 17 mm, 1/800, f/4, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 17 mm, 1/500, f/4, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 16 mm, 1/500, f/4, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 35 mm, 1/2000, f/4, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 24 mm, 1/400, f/5.7, ISO 100)

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

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

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

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 50 mm, 1/250, f/2, ISO 1600)

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

(Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, 32 mm, , f/4, ISO 100)

Paris Panoramas

Maxwell — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:24:02 +0000

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:

Back from Paris

Maxwell — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:40:03 +0000

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)

India

Maxwell — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:57:33 +0000

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)

Germany

Maxwell — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:50:00 +0000

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)

Kenya

Maxwell — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:24:00 +0000

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.

Utah

Maxwell — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:03:00 +0000

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)

European Delivery 08 Video

Maxwell — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:24:00 +0000

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.

What I've Been Up To

Maxwell — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:36:00 +0000

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.

Islamorada

Maxwell — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:51:07 +0000

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.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17mm, 1/1000, f/4, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17mm, 1/80, f/4, ISO 800)

Movie theater in the house

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17mm, 1/30, f/4, ISO 2500)

View when you walk in the front door out the back door.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17mm, 0.01, f/8, ISO 400)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17mm, 1/500, f/7.1, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 300mm, 1/3200, f/4, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 300mm, 1/800, f/5.6, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 300mm, 1/400, f/5.6, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17mm, 1/400, f/8, ISO 100)

Woke up early one day for the sunrise. It wasn’t that spectacular.

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 300mm, 1/60, f/4, ISO 3200)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 40mm, 1.3, f/4, ISO 1000)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 300mm, 1/4000, f/4, ISO 500)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17mm, 1/1000, f/4, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17mm, 1/1000, f/5.6, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 19mm, 1/1600, f/4, ISO 100)

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 300mm, 1/1600, f/5.6, ISO 100)

Seal attack

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 300mm, 1/1600, f/4, ISO 100)

Famous Key West Sunrise

(Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 40mm, 1/1250, f/5.6, ISO 100)

New York City

Maxwell — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:35:40 +0000

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)

Peru Photos

Maxwell — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:36:00 +0000

It took me a lot of time, but I finally finished the majority of my photo stuff from Peru. I still have a lot of panoramas to stitch together, but I’ll do that when I’m bored – probably over the summer.

(Canon EOS 40D, 17mm, 1/40, f/4, ISO 800)

I carried a GPS receiver with me throughout the trip which logged everywhere we went (usually, depending on if it could get reception).

Similar to my European trip this summer, I combined the photos and GPS data into a Google Maps application. This time, it is enhanced with photos, GPS, my trip journal, and a new interface. Sorry, no Internet Explorer – it just doesn’t work in that browser.

www.maxwellkruger.com/Peru08

My photos are accessible in several galleries. Click the image below to access each respective gallery.

Peru

(Canon EOS 40D, 17mm, 1/160, f/4, ISO 400)

People of Peru

(Canon EOS 40D, 135mm, 1/800, f/2.8, ISO 200)

Inca Trail

(Canon EOS 40D, 17mm, 13, f/5, ISO 800)

Inca Trail: The Porters

(Canon EOS 40D, 50mm, 1/50, f/1.8, ISO 800)

Lake Titicaca and Jungle

(Canon EOS 40D, 135mm, 1/160, f/2, ISO 1600)

Back from Europe

Maxwell — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:59:00 +0000

I got back from Europe about a month ago…it’s been a long time coming with the photos but I’m finally done. Below the jump are some photos and the full album from the trip is at http://picasaweb.google.com/maxwellk/EuropeanDelivery.

We started in Munich, went east to Freiburg, to visit Chris and Berni at the university there, then went down through eastern Switzerland and also hit up Austria and Italy. Then we got news that we could visit Chateau Miraval, the Chateau that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are renting out and going to buy for $70M, if we could make it down to the south of France by the next morning. We drove through the night, got a few hours of sleep, and visited the next day. Did wine tasting and also got a tour of the studio there that such albums as Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Rammstein’s Mutter were recorded. Got to listen to the albums in the same space they were originally recorded! Then we headed down to Cannes and Nice and spend two days there, each. On the last day, we took 3 hours before we had to turn the car in and drove the Col de Turini. Amazing road, wish that we had spent more time on it!

I carried a small GPS receiver with me which recorded the route. I’ve downloaded the trip files and wrote a little web app to see the route that we took. Check it out here – http://www.maxwellkruger.com/europeandelivery/. If you turn on high detail, you can actually zoom in and see to the foot exactly where we were at most stages of the trip. If it’s running too slow for you, try to turn down the detail. Also, this means that most of the photos are geotagged so if you open them up in PicasaWeb, they will show a little map in the bottom right hand corner. You can also open them all up in Google Earth.

Freiburg

Chateau Miraval

Col de Turini