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Senior Portraits in Winona MN

Brady Whealon — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:25:01 +0000

Sorry it has been so long since an update but my time has been well spent. I decided to invest in some new gear and most of my summer I have been working on honing my skills and mastering what I already know. There are going to be a number of huge updates to this website in the next few weeks. This year I have been working with more and more Seniors in High School to create memorable portraits to capture the spirit of youth in transition. I have to say out of all of the things to photograph it is really interesting to work with other creative individuals who are willing to do just about anything to make a cool photo. Here are some of my favorites from yesterday.

Erica and Joshua Guyse Wedding Gallery.

Brady Whealon — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:20:09 +0000

As promised here is another wedding gallery to share with friends and family. I had a lovely time with Erica and Josh and want to thank them again for their hospitality. Best wishes in the future!

Thankfully spring break has been a blessing in the sense that it has provided me with much needed time for rest and recuperation. Part of that process has been hanging out with friends but the biggest weight off of my shoulders is getting to work ahead on some of these projects that have been nibbling at my toes for the last few months. I will continue to update my website with more pictures and galleries as I can but there is only so much I can do at one time. Next on my list is compiling a gallery for all of the sports photos I have taken in the last 6 months. And for those of you who don’t know it would amount to almost 25,000 still frames. Of course I wont post them all but there are plenty that fit into my favorites category. I am very excited for this summer and the opportunities a head and I cant wait to work with you all more. Thanks for your support!

Fragments: Apple Insomnia Film Festival 2007

Brady Whealon — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:02:12 +0000

I am proud to present our video submission to the Apple Insomnia Film Festival 2007. My friends Timmy Johnson, Steven Frank, and Jef Clements roped me into participating in this ridiculous challenge. For those of you that don’t know what it is all about; The challenge is to pick from the criteria that they release the morning of the competition and write, cast, shoot, edit, and master a three minute movie that meets all of their criteria in less than 24 hours. Sounds easy right? Without the help of our crew we would have never made it.. and even then it was a close call.

Most of the shooting was done by me, Steve is our master editor, Timmy was the main character and audio guy and Jef was our villain and general supporting mastermind. All in all it was the craziest 24 hours I have had in a long time. Any feedback is welcome :)

Dancescape 2008

Brady Whealon — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:51:08 +0000

Dancescape 2008 was a great success. The dancers and instructors did a wonderful job of getting everything coordinated for opening night. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to come in and photograph one of the dress rehearsals so that the photos could be used for publicity purposes. Ryan Hawkins, one of the stage managers, put together an awesome slideshow that was shown in the mail hall of the Performing Arts Center to all of the people attending the event. All in all I am very satisfied with the photos and I hope that the people over at Dancescape are too. You can click on the image above to see a gallery of images or you can click this Gallery Link

Gymnastics Poster Design 2008

Brady Whealon — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:22:55 +0000

This year the Gymnastics Team at Winona State University commissioned me to photograph and design their team poster. They were not happy with last years production and in my opinion they were quite frankly rather embarrassing. Photographically there were a few issues like high noise, underexposure, and redeye. Not to mention non team members in the background of the photo as well. This year they decided to go in a new direction and do something a little less formal and a little more fun. Hopefully the team members will see this post and comment on the final product. All feedback is welcome!

New Gallery Style

Brady Whealon — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:05:52 +0000

My good friend Andrew Verboncouer helped me out with a new gallery script base that I tweaked to fit with my site. I am pretty impressed with it so far and I love the ability to view images in a larger format as opposed to the internal galleries that limited the size greatly. For those of you that are interested I have included a link above ( click the picture ) to the new gallery and some recent infrared wedding and vacation pictures. Let me know what you think. If there are any suggestions for changes you are welcome to leave a comment.

Winona Senior High School Football

Brady Whealon — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:58:59 +0000

After I purchased my telephoto lens I started to have a greater interest in photographing sports. My girlfriend Lisa is the starting setter for the Winona State University Volleyball Team so I started there but with the intent to expand my horizons I started to photograph football games for the university and also for Winona Senior High School. Even though the lighting on the Paul Giel field is not the best for night games but I think that under the conditions the pictures are fantastic.

If you wish to view or order pictures from the Winona High School games you can follow this link Winona Football or you can go to DigiProofs and use the guest password of: winona to access them.

Urbane Animal Commercial

Brady Whealon — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:25:22 +0000

I am excited to announce that I have helped produce a TV commercial for a design studio here in Winona MN. I first came in contact with Circle Six Design when they contacted me to photograph a charity event for the Winona Humane Society. I have done a few other smaller photographic jobs for them but by far this one is the most exciting.

Soon I will add a copy of the movie to the portfolio section of my website but until then you can view it at Circle Six Design. It was really interesting to produce for me because I still had the chance to use my still frame camera to make fast action stop frame animation. It was a wonderful chance to let my creativity out and I am pretty satisfied with how it turned out. I would have liked more time to shoot it a few more times. Thanks for stopping!