TRUCK PHOTOGRAPHY
TRUCK PHOTOGRAPHY
BEHIND THE LENS
Manx Independent I had the idea of getting the truck out on one of the boat docking jetties before I even arrived on the job. The brief was to create an image that was clearly ‘Isle of Man’ and Douglas Harbour and the ferry is about as ‘Isle of Man’ as it gets.
Many of the photographs you see in this magazine come courtesy of Karl Hopkinson. He looks back on a career of many highs and picks out some of his favourite images
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Derek Heeps This shoot was a little different as I had taken the same shot a year earlier, but DAF head office requested the same shot, with the latest version DAF for a calendar. It is
pril 2020 will signal the start of my 20th year in business as a photographer. From my base in Darwen, Lancashire, I feel during this time spent
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photographing trucks, I have covered every blade of grass across the UK from the centre of London to the Orkneys – and it’s been great. Trucking is an industry full of friendly and interesting people. It’s been 14 years since my first truck shoot and years later, when I shoot the
launch images of a new DAF livery, the interest, enjoyment and challenge has never burned brighter. No two truck companies are the same: the people, the location and the job they do means every truck photoshoot has something different to capture.
never easy to recreate a shot, especially a year later but, on arrival, the weather was kind to us thankfully. But the crop was at least a foot taller and the road was never clear. It was roughly a 20-minute loop to turn around, so after multiple attempts I had to settle for an image where I had caught the truck in the right spot. The sun was out, but the road was full of traffic including another truck, so the final product was achieved by a bit of retouching. The original is shown to compare and contrast.
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