Bill I was curious as to what your setup is. We see some wonderful photos here on AR but those posted in your report are the best.If anyonre has any info on Bii's setup, please post.The photos in question are in Bill's Zambia report in the African Hunting report .

Crane - Olympus C750 Ultra Zoom. I just use the various dummy "modes" taking a couple on each shot (usually the landscape + portrait takes the best trophy or people shot). I use Photoshop to reduce the picture size to a reasonable level for the Inet & email.

If you want to see some real, real nice pictures, check out the ones posted by Outdoor Writer, he's the resident "Pro". He had some posted in the New Zealand forum that were amazing:

https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=518103&f=5621043&m=347102831

https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=518103&f=5621043&m=726109831

I bought the Olympus 750 last year and the quality of my pics have grown by leaps and bounds! I´ll never ta´ke shots like the ones posted by Outdoor Writer...maybe I could get one like that by mistake...

I would also like to know how some of the better quality pictures are posted. Do some software packages produce better results when posted than others?

Gents,

In Bill's case and most others its not the equipement that makes the difference, its the person behind the camera! OK, and the good lighting conditions help too...

In the case of Bill's pictures, they are good because among other things, he took the time and trouble to pose them properly, there is nothing in the picture that shouldn't be (no beer cans/fence lines/blood and gore on the carcass) and he took a number of pictures using a variety of settings on his camera.

There are some good threads in our Photography forum that give tints and tips for taking good trophy photos and there is also good post by JJhack on the subject currently running over at: http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=80798

I would say that if you want to take consistantly good trophy pictures the time to learn is before the hunt and the good thing is that you can practice in your backyard or local park using your kid or dog as subject...

Regards,

Pete

Bill C.

You rang???? -TONY

I really appreciate the good quality pictures that I see here. It is amusing to see the progression/maturation of my trophy & landscape pics over the years. They have become easily one of the most important parts of the hunting trip. Fortunately my lovely bride has quite a talent & interest in photography, so the equipment that is sent with me has certainly improved, as well as her instructive techniques of "grading" my poorer efforts in the past so I don't make the same blunders in the future.
Mike