What is a good hunting photo?

[smo]

Great photos Mike! Thanks for posting

 

[Darkhorse]

I've been hunting big game for over 40 years, taken a lot of photos, and most all of them were of little value. I think composition is the hard part to get right. Time must be taken to find the right spot that not only does decent to the kill but lets the viewer in on the terrain. The last few years I've put more effort into it just trying to get a couple of decent ones. I'm not sure how successful I've been.

 

[tenngun]

I don’t do trophies and don’t keep pictures.
So this is my good photo. She is hanging right now. Cut her up and bag her this evening.
About forty yards, my 28 bore smoothie. She ran off to the woods and laid down, maybe twenty yards.

 

[cannonball1]

I was wearing camo and didn't want rocks thrown at me. I made the gun with one of the first GM 1" - 28" twist barrels. They quit making those barrels. I purchased two barrels and sold the other hawken I made. They were tack drivers. I shot this deer on the south Utah border. Very close to the Gunsmoke movie set.

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[tom_in_vt]

I like the ones that show the bow or gun used. I usually take the pictures where the animal ended up, if possible.
A lot of the time I’m in a rush to get the animal gutted and skinned/hung. This means my pictures are usually rushed

 

[Jagumba]

I like this thread there are some very cool photos posted. Thank you!

 

[toot]

I don't normally take photo's, but this was a mile stone for me, I made the bow from osage, made the arrow shaft from some red ash, fletched it from a Turkey I killed, and hammered out the broached from an old saw blade. It, the pic, is pre digital, is of poor composition and use of ambient light, not very sharp either, but all that seems to make it a very good hunting photo to me. So I guess its all in how you look at it sometimes.
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I really like quality, well done pictures like Brit does, but I like these homey, hokey ones too.
Robby

I loved the fact that you did it with a STICK BOW. not many people use a LONG BOW!!

 

[toot]

I always like to take a photo with either a person or weapon to use as a size comparison. Often times I lay the weapon across the body of whatever I'm hunting, but occasionally I like to just compare myself to the size. I'm 6'5" tall, so that gives a person a good idea of the size of this hog..

WOW!! now that sure is SOME BACON!! what was the weight?

 

[toot]

For ROBBY AND RUDYARD..
A keeper would a shooting go
And under his cloak he carried a bow
For to shoot at a merry little doe
Among the leaves so green Oh,

The first doe he shot at he missed
The second doe he trimly kissed
The third doe went where nobody whist
Among the leaves so green Oh.

The forth doe went ore the plane
The keeper fetched her back again
Where hers gone her 'ul likely remain
Among the leaves so green Oh.

The Chorus between verses is sung as a round ---

To my hey down down
Ho down do down
Hey down Ho down
Dery dery down
Among the leaves so green Ho.

Originally---
The Does were Likely the Village Maidens.
A bit more Old Country useless information from OLD DOG..

I like it. never herd of it before. where was it taken from?

 

[oldwood]

Before cell phones and electronic storage of images , I took photo's by the stack of my son's hunts and some of my own. Had easily an 8 " high bundle of them So , my well meaning fastidious wife thought she would surprise us by putting all the pictures in an album . The album had clear acetate film mounting pockets as individual pages in it. Problem w/ this was the photo display film reacted with the picture images and caused the images to disappear. The only images of the hunts w/ my son , RIP , are left in my memory. Wife says , "How can you remember minute details of each hunt, but can't remember our wedding anniversary ? " I refuse to answer on the grounds of self incrimination..........oldwood

 

[Stony Broke]

WOW!! now that sure is SOME BACON!! what was the weight?

It hit just under the 300 lb. mark. Boars of these larger sizes are not worth keeping and I just haul them off to my bonepile for the buzzards, coyotes, etc.... to dine on. I've dropped many there in the 200 lb. range and they are gone by the next morning. Mighty hungry critters out there !!

 

[andy52]

Sometimes it's not about the subject it's more the background and the setting. Here's a photo of myself doing a period trek on the Missouri river with a friend of mine. He took the photo using my camera, the photo has a haunting look to it, the river was misty and it was winter so the lighting was dark and the trees bare. The canoe is a wood canvas that I had restored and I can assure had we capsized it during that time of year we probably would not have survived.