Product Photography: Rogue Slalom Trucks

Over the past two years there has been a small revolution in downhill skateboard racing product design. Spurred by advances in technology and rider technique, the big, wide, long downhill longboards we have been riding since the mid 2000s are slowly being replaced by radically smaller, narrower, slalom-inspired setups that place the wheels directly under the rider’s feet.

My friends at Rogue Trucks were early adopters of this trend and have spent the last couple of years perfecting their design for downhill-specific slalom skateboard trucks, which they finally released this year. They asked me to shoot some product photos of the latest run of trucks, which came in an anodized gold and black colorway, so I set up the lights, rolled out the seamless paper, and got down to it.