Author Archives: Greg Locke

Atlantic String Quartet

By Greg Locke | Published May 17, 2012

The Atlantic String Quartet – Nancy Case-Oates, Alison Black, Theo Weber and Clayton Leung at DF Cook Hall, St. John’s, Newfoundland. Photo by Greg Locke © 2012    

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Lunch at the Duke of Duckworth

By Greg Locke | Published May 16, 2012

It’s Fi and Chi for lunch at the legendary Duke of Duckworth pub in downtown St. John’s, Newfoundland. It’s not just a landmark or set from the hit TV series Republic of Doyle. Its a classic. TIPS? yes  …and get there early. We shot this for Canadian Business Magazine and a story about business travel. [...]

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Bring the light

By Greg Locke | Published May 15, 2012

Lawyer James L. Thistle, of McInnes Cooper, photographed in St. John’s, Newfoundland for the Canadian Bar Association magazine, NATIONAL. Sometimes you need big lights and sometimes the little one are the perfect tool for the job. Small area, limited time to shoot and reaching for our Speedlights. For this shot we used a Nikon D800 [...]

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Working search and rescue

By Greg Locke | Published May 14, 2012

Since we are on the theme of working in a harsh environment lets look at some people who willing jump out of helicopters into into a cold stormy ocean to rescue you when things go wrong. Working search and rescue requires a special breed of person to do a job where the physical and psychological [...]

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Working in a harsh environment

By Greg Locke | Published May 12, 2012

Speaking of crappy weather (see previous post) we all know that working in Newfoundland and Labrador, especially if it is outdoors, has its physical and technical challenges.  Our fishermen and mariners have been doing it for hundreds of years and it is still one of the most dangerous jobs around. They survive by their wits, [...]

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Time, time time …Part Deux

By Greg Locke | Published May 8, 2012

Here is the view of the west end of downtown St. John’s you don’t often get. This scene will change considerably over the next few years as three major office building construction projects have begun in the area after more than twenty-five years being vacant land prime for commercial development. Camera #2 has been installed, [...]

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Nikon D800 – Loose in the real world.

By Greg Locke | Published May 4, 2012

I have not been excited about a new camera since I traded a bag full of Olympus OM1’s and a bunch of lenses for a couple of new Nikon F3’s, an 80-200mm and a 20mm back in 1985. The first digital camera I considered worth buying was the Nikon D100. I had used the NC2000 [...]

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On set with Laura and Evan

By Greg Locke | Published March 17, 2012

We just finished up shooting some TV ads with our friends at Lingo Creative  and I had the pleasure to meet Laura and Even. These two great young Newfoundland actors nailed the improv scenes within minutes of hearing the briefest of concepts. It’s a shame you won’t actually see their faces on screen so I [...]

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Panoramic portraits

By Greg Locke | Published March 11, 2012

CLIENT: “Greg, we need you for a few days to shoot some portraits of workers at a bunch of locations”. ME: “Great. Whats the concept?” CLIENT: “Well, its for a corporate annual report and I’ve laid it out so the portraits are panoramas spanning the page. Nice face shot with vista for a background.” ME: [...]

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Time, time, time…tick,tick,tick

By Greg Locke | Published March 11, 2012

We’ve installed our first camera in downtown St. John’s for what will be a 15 month time lapse video of the construction of a new office building on the harbour front. This little Panasonic TM-700 camcorder (an awesome little camera if anyone is looking for a small but high quality HD camcorder) is the easiest [...]

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