Rob/PA Bower is a cheater!
11-21-2008, 10:02 PM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Milwaukee WI
Posts: 1,161
RE: Rob/PA Bower is a cheater!
ORIGINAL: Dubbya
uh... are you serious?
uh... are you serious?
Does nobody see the html codes? Maybe I should've added a whole bunch of
's
11-21-2008, 10:13 PM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Titusville Florida
Posts: 1,727
RE: Rob/PA Bower is a cheater!
Rob's the master, ya'll need to take lessons from him. Pat that deer is something to be proud of, there's nothing wrong with taking pictures from favorable angles and distances in order to highlight his best features.
11-22-2008, 03:48 AM
#17
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 721
RE: Rob/PA Bower is a cheater!
Actually all joking aside, this is a perfect example of the difference in taking the time to take a quality photo can make. Sure Rob's buck is situated to enhance it's apperance and makethe rackthe focal point of the picture, but isn't that the point of taking a picture of your harvest?
Everyone gripes about folks trying to make a buck look bigger in their photo, but when it come right down to it if as a hunter you can't put a buck's actual rack size into perspective by looking at the size of the buckshead andears, then you are destined for harvesting bucks with some serious ground shrinkage.
Look atRob's deer. I can see all the wonderful details of the rack. Beautiful pic. Can't say the same about Hoytail's. Can't see much detail at all.
-Rob did everything you are supposed to do: clean the animal, position it somewhat uprightin it's natural surroundings with no background distractions, include the weapon as part of the story, wear your hunting gear, smile-hopefully the experiencemade you happy
-Sorry Hoytail, but yours is a tutorial on trophy photo no-no's: pic on the back of a flatbed truck, takenin the city somewhere, animal already caped, hunter in street clothes, hunter straddling animal instead of behind animal, both hands covering a good share of the trophy, mugshot facial expression.
Both great animals. One tells the tale of an exciting hunt by a proud and satisfied hunter. The other says 'I killed this buck'.
One I'd take the time to look at again, the other I barely look at the first time much like the pic Pat Curtis included in his post. Nice buck Pat, but I really couldn't recall much about it as I didn't take the time to absorb it due to dismissing it as another afterthought tailgate mugshot.
As long as you are happy with the harvest, then that's all that matters. But if you are taking the time to post a pic on a forum such as this to share with fellow hunters, then make it a picture worth remembering.
Everyone gripes about folks trying to make a buck look bigger in their photo, but when it come right down to it if as a hunter you can't put a buck's actual rack size into perspective by looking at the size of the buckshead andears, then you are destined for harvesting bucks with some serious ground shrinkage.
Look atRob's deer. I can see all the wonderful details of the rack. Beautiful pic. Can't say the same about Hoytail's. Can't see much detail at all.
-Rob did everything you are supposed to do: clean the animal, position it somewhat uprightin it's natural surroundings with no background distractions, include the weapon as part of the story, wear your hunting gear, smile-hopefully the experiencemade you happy
-Sorry Hoytail, but yours is a tutorial on trophy photo no-no's: pic on the back of a flatbed truck, takenin the city somewhere, animal already caped, hunter in street clothes, hunter straddling animal instead of behind animal, both hands covering a good share of the trophy, mugshot facial expression.
Both great animals. One tells the tale of an exciting hunt by a proud and satisfied hunter. The other says 'I killed this buck'.
One I'd take the time to look at again, the other I barely look at the first time much like the pic Pat Curtis included in his post. Nice buck Pat, but I really couldn't recall much about it as I didn't take the time to absorb it due to dismissing it as another afterthought tailgate mugshot.
As long as you are happy with the harvest, then that's all that matters. But if you are taking the time to post a pic on a forum such as this to share with fellow hunters, then make it a picture worth remembering.
