News from the Picturedesk

This is a piece on the Hammer website today featuring the ‘Sin City’ shoot with Avenged Sevenfold.
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‘Hammer Pics Revisited: Avenged Sevenfold
terrybezer / News, Top Posts / 28/01/2009 18:47pm
Go back into the ‘Hammer archives with our Avenged Sevenfold ‘Sin City’ shoot and another batch of Avenged pics featuring sexy ladies!

Metal Hammer goes back to December 2005 to revisit our Avenged Sevenfold ‘Sin City’ shoot.

Talking about the concept behind the shoot, Metal Hammer’s Art Editor James Isaacs says: “At the time of this cover shoot for A7X, the Frank Miller film ‘Sin City’ was flying high around the world and it was the poster from the movie that inspired us to recreate that shot, using Avenged as our anti-heroes. We couldn’t get the band to the UK so we flew snapper John McMurtrie to Atlanta and told him to round up some guns and baseball bats…as you do. Luckily, the band had their own! He used the same lighting and composition from the film and even shot the buildings for the background. It was then given to our Photoshop mentalist Chris Stocker who added the rain and did the final tweaks.”

“We wanted to show A7X as a gang, the dangerous new guys on the scene. I think we got it just right, as it’s still probably the most popular and talked about Metal Hammer cover of the past 10 years!”

Couple of bits of press just published on what I get up to. The first is a Q&A on Lightroom News (Techy nerd alert!).
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The other is in Hungary’s leading photo title ‘digitalis foto’. They got in touch with me over a year ago and I had forgotten all about it until I received a copy through the post today. It looks good but I have no idea whether it is a good read? Anyone fluent in Hungarian out there?

Busy busy editing a music video I shot before christmas using Final Cut Pro. The band is Raising Sand and the song is Dirty weekend. I loved the song before I began this project. Having listened to the same chorus 900 times I am starting to crave sitting in a quiet room for a week or two. I still love the song though. Below is a still from the shoot just before we made a bit of a mess!

Iron Maiden the movie – Flight 666

Duff Mckagan on the banks of Lock Ness

The Answer in New Jersey on the AC/DC tour.

Hope 2008 was everything that you wanted it to be and that 2009 rocks your socks off!
Will be back on-line soon with some big updates when the festivities end. January promises to be a busy time getting ready for the new Iron Maiden tour starting in Feb. Love to you all and drop by for more news from the picturedesk in 2009.