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Fotoweek DC 2009: 1st Place Sports Photography

Brian — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:48:05 +0000

Dawn’s Early Light, by Brian W Knight.

My photo, By Dawn’s Early Light, won first place in the Sports category at last night’s Fotoweek DC Awards Gala. The photo shows the first wave of racers in the 2009 Nation’s Triathlon as they swim up the Potomac River past the Lincoln Memorial.

Limited edition prints are now available for purchase:

Mini Wallets (set of 8), Edition of 300 sets, $10.00
10×12, Edition of 100 prints, $150
16×24, Edition of 25 prints, $300
20×30, Edition of 10 prints, $375
24×36, Edition of 10 prints, $450

Each image is printed on professional papers including Kodak Endura E-Surface and Ilford’s True B&W. Both feature 100 year archival value, and will stand the test of time. Your prints are going to look great for a long time.

For the next week my photo will hang at Fotoweek Central located in Georgetown starting tonight through November 14, 2009.

Fotoweek Central 1
3338 M Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007

True B&W Paper (Matte Finish)

There is a difference between B&W and true digital B&W prints! This panchromatic, resin-coated paper is specifically designed for making continuous-tone B&W prints directly from digital images in digital exposing systems.

This paper also provides excellent tone reproduction from digital camera files, scanned color slides or negatives. Because the emulsion is silver-based rather than dye-based, the imaging performance and characteristics of this paper are the same as traditional b&w continuous-tone papers. That translates to neutral tonal characteristics that provide the paper with display and archival qualities.

One added benefit is that the resin-coated paper is specially coated on the back to accept ink, making it a good surface for crop lines or writing notes.

E-Surface Paper (Matte Finish)

Kodak Professional Supra Endura VC Digital Paper (aka Traditional E-Surface Paper) is by far our most popular paper. Accurate color, realistic saturation, excellent neutral flesh reproduction and brighter colors are just a few of the attributes to describe E-Surface paper.

You will see excellent skin-tone reproduction, as well as brighter blues, cyans, purples, and reds.

With this paper don’t worry about prints fading. The standard archival value is 100 years in home display and 200 years in dark storage.

Photos Online Now: EX2′s Backyard Burn, Wakefield

Brian — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:29:21 +0000

Backyard Burn, Wakefield 2009, originally uploaded by Brian Knight Photography.

Photos from this race are uploading now and they should all be online in about eight hours. See the full gallery!

UPDATE: All photos are now online!!

Day in the Life: EX2′s Backyard Burn @Wakefield

Brian — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:15:46 +0000

EX2 Backyard Burn: Wakefield, originally uploaded by Brian Knight Photography.

A typical day in the (totally glamorous) life of an adventure sports photographer…

0700 – Alarms go off (x3)
0730 – Actually get out of bed
0730 – Shower, check the forecast, realise that the rain is not going to stop and will in fact continue for quite a bit longer, rush around to find gore-tex boots, pants and hat, a tent, and anything else that seems like it might be good to have around while intentionally subjecting oneself to a rain storm (oh, and some sort of pack to put it all in – This, by the way, all in addition to the other backpack full of camera gear).
0800 – Wander out to the car with all of my bags, drive to the park
0830 – Hike off to my spot on the trail, set up the tent’s rainfly, hunker down, and wait for runners
0910 – 1100 – take some photos (6,072 to be exact)
1130 – Drive home, change clothes, hang up gear to dry
1230 – Make brunch, eat
1300 – Start downloading memory cards
1500 – Finish downloading memory cards/start photo sorting
1600 – Fall asleep on the couch, nod off during X-Men 3 about a dozen times
1700 – Sort photos
2230 – Finish first sort, head on to second sort
0000 – Finish second sort, create new photoshop action, test
0030 – Start automated editing process
0100 – Blog a bit, sleep
0700 – Alarms go off (x3)
0730 – Actually get out of bed
0730 – Shower, put on suit & tie, make the hour (14 mile) long drive to the office, do work stuff, etc.

Random Stats:

6,072: Number of original images
1,489: Number of images after first cut (completed 10:30pm)
997: Number of images after second cut (completed by midnight)
3: Number of hours at race
2: Number of hours at race shooting
2: Number of hours it took to download eight memory cards
9: Number of hours it took to sort through 6,072 images twice

On Demand shows watched:

X-Men Last Stand
CSI x4
Mercy x2
Trauma

DVRd shows watched:

Californication
Mad Men

Marine Corps Marathon 2009

Brian — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:44:14 +0000

Yesterday I covered the 34th MCM for DCist.com.

Photos Online Now: EX2 Day of Endurance

Brian — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:38:55 +0000

EX2 Day of Endurance, Rocky Gap, originally uploaded by Brian Knight Photography.

All photos from EX2 Adventure’s Day of Endurance Race are online now!

FotoWeek DC Finalist: Sports

Brian — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:49:41 +0000

Nation’s Tri 2009, originally uploaded by Brian Knight Photography.

The first email I read Monday night while still on the plane from Ottawa was from FotoWeek DC and began as follows…

Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you that you are a finalist in the FotoWeek DC Awards Competition. This means that your image will be exhibited in one of our FotoWeek galleries in Georgetown throughout the length of FotoWeek DC and you might be the first prize winner in the category you entered. You are also invited to the Awards Ceremony and Reception to be held at the National Geographic Society on November 5, 2009 where the winners will be announced and prizes will be awarded.

What a great birthday present, eh?! I’m very excited to be selected as a finalist and can’t wait for the gala held at Nat Geo in November.

Some more info about the competition…

FotoWeek DC Awards Competition Exhibition
This exhibition of the finalists from the 2009 Awards competition recognizes and honors extraordinary work in photography. Entries from sixteen states and twenty-eight foreign countries were made in several categories, including Fine Art, News/Feature Reporting, Advertising, Travel, and Sports. A multimedia category was added this year, too — work that may combine still photography with sound, graphics or video. A distinguished panel of judges, both from the U. S. and abroad, has carefully selected our finalists who will be recognized with Awards of Excellence, Distinction, and Merit — the top three entries in each category for a total of $21,500 in cash prizes. The winner of the “Spirit of Washington,” a single image that captures the essence of our capitol city, will receive the $5,000 Podesta Prize.

Read more about FotoWeek DC at their site. Here’s a link to the list of judges.