RE: Did i scare him away?
Good points already made. Look at it this way ... you had the camera in the area to see what was hanging around. Now you know that there is a mature 10 point using the area. Sure, it'll show up all over the place, but at least it has come here once for sure. Maybe a good idea would to be to stay out and come back rut time.
I will offer this concerning "nocturnal" deer. Three of us here had 1000's of images on our combined 11 trail cameras before last season started. We cooperated with one another and moved these around on the 3100 acres we hunt. We are 100% certain we captured 17 different mature bucks that were 10 point or better, including two absolutely awesome bucks. We had a combined 311 images of these big boys. Even though these images were taken before the season started, i.e. before any hunting pressure, only one image of any of these was captured in daytime hours. Unless some one hunting near us bagged one or more of these, 15 made it through the season.