How to Take A Field Picture-Don't Move This Please


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You,your buddy,your child has just shot his first,biggest or actually any deer and you want to take a picture. Gut it-drag it through some blood-pull out the tongue then snap away-NOOOOO!!! These are beautiful animals and they deserve the respect a proper picture after harvest gives them. Carry some paper towels-wipe up and excess blood you can-lips etc. Cut the tongue off. Smooth the hair down-roll the deer onto it's chest and get it's legs under it. When holding the head up support the ears on the backs of your thumbs so they don't hang down. Kneel behind the deeer-don't sit on it. Take lots of pics from every angle-kneel down too so you aren't shooting down on the animal. If at night pose in front of some trees-shine your lights on it and use your flash also. Those little disposable cameras take good pics if you get close enough so take lots. I'm no expert photographer but a poorly done field photo really bugs me. It only takes a few miutes of effort to make the differance between a great picture u will cherish and a gross kill picture.

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I second that SG.I just poke the tonque back in with my fingures.Most the time I try to take the pics before we even gut the animal.I also tell the person with the deer to keep their hands off the antlers.I prefer seeing the entire set of horns.Not someones hands.Poss. no holding the deer by the ears or sitting on top of it for the picture.I sometimes get down on my belly to take the pics.I try to get the shooter to hold the neck up by grabbing the hair or holding the chin up with their knee.I think we have gotten some pretty good pics so far.

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Heck..I got a daughter who takes more preping than the deer she shoots!!Man....I tell ya, it's quite the production after the shot..... the deer was getting stiff by the time we gort ready....I had a heck of a time to get the legs propped up and positioned right... I wanted to get a feild shot with her, but NOOOWAY!!!

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When I was younger, I never gave it much thought. Of course before all these outdoor educational shows got so popular... 20 years ago there wasn't much school of thought towards taking the pic. Now I consider it for every animal. Not alway the evening of the kill if I am alone, or recovery is after sunset, but I always take some follow up pics with a cleaned up animal, in the woods near my house, the following day.

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yeah i saw realtree give a thread about this on the homepage....takes a lot of time though, sometimes time you dont have when the weather is heating up and you have to get things done though....i think your right though i nice picture of the deer looks way better than a deer with his bloody tongue hanging out thats sick...plus anyone that looks at the picture will see that bloody tongue instead of the huge rack

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I never really bother too much with the field photos. We ussually take most of our "posing" pictures back at camp when we get the deer hanging.

I ussually try to take the in the moment pictures. It's the pictures that are snapped here and there of people hanging treestands, dragging out the deer, admiring the deer before it is moved too much, and just having a good tiime. Those pictures help bring back the hunt more than anything.

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These are the icing on the cake! In the field photos are great memories!!

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I always poke the tounge back in their mouth, I admit, and you can see it in my post that I didn't get any good field photos of my doe yesterday because it got too dark. I took a few tailgate shots today but only because it was snowing and the wind was blowing so bad it made taking good shots out in the yard impossible. I hope to get some nice photos of her in the yard tomorrow before taking her to the processor, that is, if it's not snowing too hard.

I agree stick the tonge back in the deer! That always bugs me when I see a pic like that. We also try to put the tag behind the deer's ear and clean all the blood off it we can.

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Have to admit, the first several years of hunting when I did get someone to take pics we did get the tongue hanging out in the back of the truck pics. The last thing on my mind in those days as a learning hunter was the quality of the pics. Kind of wish I had thought more about that then, but to me it really does not take anything away from my memories. Just looks good for someone else to take the few extra steps for the pics.

Great tips, however sometimes situations just do not allow for taking the optimum picture.

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I agree with ya Superguide.Getting a good photo is as good as a wall mount in my books. The care a taxidermist takes is seen in the finished product and in photos this holds true as well. If time and weather permits, a great photo can be had.

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WEll I'm hoping to catch up toMr. Big so I can demonstrate proper technigue-my neighbor got a 175 net just north of my place last week and my other neighbor got a 158 with a busted 12 inch tine. I saw their big brother on wednesday but he was on my neighbors field and they're still hunting so I let him walk-big 6x6 at least 24 inch spread-pretty sweet loking buck. One more week for his luck to run out and mine to improve.

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Good post super...when I get a nice buck I love to get a picture of him in the outdoors where he was taken. Tongue in and before the field dress if at all possible.

You owe it to the animal you have just harvested to make him look as majestic as he did on the hoof.

You did not see him walking around with his tongue hangind out ....... Unless he was on a hot doe lol

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I agree with Unioncountyslayer. I am not a pro photographer, or care to be one. I don't carry a camera in the woods. My pics are not for a magazine, calender, etc. Just a pic. The memories are burned into my mind. I don't mind reality in photos.

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Nice post SG and your absolutley right but let's stop and think about this for a minute. I feel the need to argue the other side of taking field pictures. What you posted is GTG but it's the purpose that I don't like.

We go out there and kill animals, not for the survival of it but for the sport of it. There might be a few out there that hunt to survive but 99.9% of hunters out there do it for the sport. We go out there and kill deer for the sport of it and then talk a bunch of junk with our buddies about our deer kill. We then sometimes go get the head or whatever stuffed so we can look at our kill the rest of our lives. Then we try to justify it by praying to God and thanking God for our kill. But we are afraid or offended to take pics of a deer that we just killed that has it's tounge hanging out or in the back of a truck with blood showing. Are we that bothered by PETA? I mean it's a good theory to dress your deer up nice and neat before taking a picture of it but I found out in here, if you don't, you get hammered about it. Do some of you feel that guilty about your kill? All I see in here is about how people have pet peeves about some pics taken of dead deer. Don't sit on it...shove the tounge back in the mouth, clean up the blood! You/we just went out to their home and killed them for the sport of it, not for survival but for the fun of it and then we get offended about how a pic is taken of it. Although nice post and a good theory, I personnaly won't go to great lengths to take some pretty pic of a deer that I just killed for the sport of it and to brag about it in here or to my buddies. JMO

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If you are hunting by yourself, learn how to use the timer on your camera, make sure your batteries aren't dead, and maybe invest in a tripod. I learned the hard way this year with my muley buck.

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PETA has got nothing to do with it all-it's showing some respect for that animal IMHO. If you can't be bothered to take two minutes to take a good picture -don't take one-or better yet don't post it for all the rest of us to look at your sloppy disregard for the animals you hunt. Maybe it is "FUN' but if fun involves demeaning something after it's dead-just shakes his head. THe purpose of my post was to point out a few things so people can take better pictures of their deer-alot of people just never think of a few simple things that was it. I can't believe somebody would actually take issue with it but I guess to each their own.

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If you can't be bothered to take two minutes to take a good picture -don't take one-or better yet don't post it for all the rest of us to look at your sloppy disregard for the animals you hunt.

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I have to disagree with you here. Just b/c a "perfect" pic isn't taken doesn't mean the hunter has a "sloppy disregard for the animal". I think there are a lot more ethical issues that play a much larger role than whether your pic meets the standards of a select few.

Sure---I enjoy looking at a picture that took a little more time for prep but I sure never judged a hunter by the type of pic he has taken---at least not one posted on this site.

JMO though

todd

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