Very good post Matt, as usual. This info has helped me with my pics in the past and there is always room for improvement. The only thing missing from your post is an example or two, or three<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>. Tiffany has to be my favorite hunter and takes, I mean makes the best pictures, IMO. I hope you don't mind?

Beautiful picture, animal and hunter, IMO. Perfect example.

Can't get enough of this fine lady. What a smile!


I know, I know, I'm obsessed.

Frank, yup, you summed it up.

Wait the appropriate amount of time after the shot.

Be proud of your harvest....and

take quality pictures.

Matt, great post as always. I was wondering when you were getting around to this....and I concur 100%.

Even if you don't have the camera in the woods, when you get home it only takes a few minutes to take the deer out of the truck and take quality photos in a real nice pose. I think everyone here has to agree that those photos are the best and give you something to look back on, even enlarge to display next to the mount.

Like Matt says, HONOR THE ANIMAL, making the hunter secondary in the sceen...


ChiefHeadHunter, I can see why see'd be your favorite. <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> <img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle> <img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle> <img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle>

<font color=blue>Good Luck and Good Shooting</font id=blue>

<font color=red>Rob</font id=red>

Once again, Great Post!!! Good examples!!!

&quot; I do not hunt to kill,but rather kill to have hunted&quot;(quote)

MATT you are so right, I am still kicking myself for not getting pictures of my kill last year until I was home and it was in the bed of the truck. The only thing I did right was get my girls in the pics.

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club

Thanks guys.......Rob is very right that it takes so little time and extra effort to get so much more from your pictures.
I always try to take a picture that I'd be proud to have hanging on my wall for anyone to see....

Chief......I guess sometimes being a dead deer has its advantages. <img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle> I must agree, Perfect examples.

A couple of things to remember for improving pics. If you're in the woods and it's a little dark, overexpose by 1 to 1 1/2 stops when using a flash. Otherwise the background will be underexposed, and the subject will appear stark. Watch the background for distracting elements, big rocks, brush piles, etc. Be aware of small trees and anything jutting up from the ground. You don't want these to appear to be growing out of the subject's head. You know, &quot;what a great pic, if only that tree wasn't growing out of my head&quot;. If you have manual exposure control you can soften (blur) the background if you like by opening up the lens to a wider aperture. A small tele lens will also compress and soften the background. A wide angle lens has much more depth of field, but you can get very close and get some great pics at various angles. Use your imagination. It's very rewarding when showing your pics, and people go ooh, ah.

Phil.

Perfect examples, Chief. Best in class, no doubt. Best in class.

Good post Matt
Chief those are fantastic shots, I especially like the first one, the blue sky in the back ground sure adds a lot of &quot;punch&quot;.

Uhhh, Chief....who is &quot;Tiffany&quot;.

I gotta ask...I just have to...daughter maybe?

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The fuji disposables at Walmart take some of the best pics. I used both Kodac and Fuji, by far Fuji did a better job for me. Fuji sale for around six to eight dollars at walmart. very cheap and well worth every photo. Great hunting and God Bless... Matthews