Nebraska Outdoors Forum

[stalkingatrophybuck]

Okay, Gary asked for them. I hope these will prove helpful:

1) Get close enough to your subject. If you stand back and try to include everything, not only will your subject be too small to see well, but all the extra "clutter" in the photo will just confuse the mind.

2)Don't shoot into the sun (or the headlights) -- you will end up with a silhouette backed up by a glare.

3) Don't shoot into the shadows. You need some light on the main interest (subject) of your photo, or you will lose all the details and the photo will not really show what you want.

4) Try not to put the subject of your photo in the dead center (top to bottom or side to side). This tends to make a static photo. Moving the subject a bit (not too far) to one side will make the photo more visually appealing in most circumstances.

5) If you are shooting action, use a high shutter speed and move the camera with your subject. You are more likely to freeze the action of the subject this way, rather than have a focused background and a blurred subject.

6) If you are taking a photo of your "trophy," try to clean up some of the blood, don't include the "wound," or the bloody rags, try to take the pic without the tongue hanging out, and if you are in the photo, wash your hands -- this will be less offensive to the "non-hunters" who see the photo.

7) To take non-blurred or non-shaky photos, hold the camera close in to your body, anchor your elbows against your chest (or rest on your belly if you are like many of us) and pretend the camera shutter button is a gun trigger -- push it in a slow and steady manner to prevent camera jerk or tipping.

[sbode]

Light meters in cameras are set to measure 18% gray. When a meter sees snow it thinks it's gray and will reproduce all snow images as gray snow. To overcome this you must overexpose 2 f/stops. Yes overexpose in order to get the snow to look white. Most cameras have some kind of exposure overide allowing you to adjust for snow pics.
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