As much as you'd like to take a few quick photographs to show off your truck, it's not that simple. However, learning these five pro tips for taking better photos of your truck will help you showcase your vehicle’s allure and charm. Grab your garb and get ready to become the amateur photographer that you always wanted to be.

Use a Good Camera

Each update to our phones’ operating systems comes with incremental changes for taking photographs. While these changes are helpful for taking a selfie or an adorable family picture, they don’t provide the best options for taking a professional photo. A digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera features a bigger sensor to capture a picture, providing sophisticated processing capabilities that improve each picture's sharpness, resolution, and purity. Having a DSLR camera handy doesn't necessitate a phone upgrade because it will continue to take beautiful photos throughout the years.

Experiment With Lighting

Professional photographers will carry tinfoil-like posterboard or use illuminating lights for their photoshoots because good lighting is critical for high-quality photographs. You should experiment with various lighting setups and carefully analyze your photographs after taking them. Diligently assessing the pictures will confirm what lighting works best when photographing your truck.

To ensure you explore all your options, snap images at different times of the day. You might learn that dusk makes your truck look better or that the early sunrise enhances its features.

Find a Good Backdrop

A stunning backdrop gives your picture the ultimate decorative touch, whereas the opposite may completely tarnish the photograph. The best backgrounds are ones that accentuate your truck's stylish features. Choose something that complements the vehicle rather than diverts the viewer's eyes elsewhere.

You don't want someone's first impression to be confusion as to why your photoshoot took place at your chosen location. Double-check that there are no trash cans, hanging electrical wires, run-down buildings, or other vehicles in your frame. 

Try a Driving Shot

Taking a driving shot requires help from others and a keen eye, but they are unquestionably the coolest photos you can take. This image suggests a natural sense of motion, giving the viewer a realistic look at how the car looks behind the wheel.

When taking a moving shot, remember to secure yourself in the vehicle, keep your camera attached to your hip, and put the camera in continuous shooting mode. Find a majestic, low-traffic roadway to do some test runs to perfect the timing. Once everyone feels comfortable, it's showtime. You’ll likely take several unusable pictures throughout the course of the shoot; however, using burst mode should snag a few winners from the tens or hundreds of pictures you take.

Showcase the Uniqueness of Your Truck

This final tip is the cherry on top of the hypothetical sundae. Many people have the same ideas when they take pictures of their trucks, which is why highlighting the details that make your ride unique will help you stand out from the crowd. Taking highly detailed shots of a customized interior or showing off your vehicle’s heavy-duty rear bumper lets you put the exclamation point on your truck's portfolio.

Following these five pro tips for taking better photos of your truck will have your truck looking magazine ready. Let Supreme Suspensions supply you with the best products to improve the look of your truck, and receive 10 percent off your next purchase when you subscribe to our mailing list.