Here are a few tips to ensure you have quality deer photo's that can back up the big whitetail buck story you tell the people at home when you return from your annual hunting trip.
Have you, in the past resorted to the pictures taken out of the back of the truck, or worse yet after your biggest catch is already messy from preparing for transport home? Did you too get caught up in the excitement and forgot to get the camera out of the truck, where you left it to keep the darn batteries from freezing into the useless.
This season, instead of pictures that show the "lack of planning motif": Take your deer hunting photograph that is worthy of the mantel.
For those of you wanting to improve the quality of your hunting memory photos, the following advice may help:
1. Let's Get Serious: Think of all the time money you spent even before you even got your tag in search of this year's big one. We won't forget the frozen fingers and toes either... Don't lose your patience now, take some time to set up a good deer hunting photograph and you will be glad you did.
2. Location, Location: This isn't the first time I have harped about location. Last time you heard it was in relationship to building your deer food plots. This time, I mean find a good location with some decent background that represents the site of the kill. If this happened to be on your deer food plot this often makes a great backdrop and also adds another level to the story of success. If such conditions are not favorable, be creative. Find a stream, or take it in front of the cabin. The salient point here is to take the time to set up your shots.
3. Clean up the House: I know you heard this from your mother before. It makes good sense now. Take time to wash your deer up as best you can. Water in a pail will do. I have even resorted to wipes on occasion. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Either way, wash off the bloody spots, smooth back the hair as best you can and moisten up the eyes and nose. (Some deer photographers carry glass eyes with them, just in case the eyes of a deer they are photographing have already sunken). Clean yourself or the person in the picture up as well, such as taking off a blood stained coat. Try and cover up the impact spots with your bow, gun, or leaves and position yourself in angles that will hide those gunshot holes.
4. Think Glamor Photography: Find the trophy buck's best look or feature. If you're taking the shot, have the hunter pose with different person and animal angles in an attempt to find the best shots.
5. Don't be Cheap: Take a full role of film for each deer if you have to. If you are not working with digital you have probably had the experience of multiples that didn't work out. If only one photo in the 36 exposures comes out perfectly, well that is all you need for a lifetime of memories.
6. Watch the Big Nose Syndrome: These are shots where the trophy whitetail and the hunter are so out of balance it looks unrealistic. When it comes to film, nothing real fancy here either, the standard quality Kodak or Fuji print film, ASA 100 or 200 with 36 exposures will work just fine. The advice I was given, if you do have a zoom lens, was to take your photos between the 70 mm and 90 mm range.
Dr. Judy McFarlen, is the author of DiyDeerFoodPlots.com a Canadian Veterinarian with 20 years experience. Collecting memories: tips for taking better trophy photos.
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