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Used with great care, you can get very close to broadcast quality footage. Home video recorders are great for getting your feet wet in outdoor videography, and nothing will get your skill levels up faster than choosing to tape whitetail hunting. There are two basis approaches to taping. One approach involves you serving as the camera man, running a video recorder to capture what a hunting buddy is doing. This is not as boring as you might think, but it is tough to do when you have two hunters with twice the human scent and likelihood deer will be alerted to your presence. The other approach is to lm yourself and what you are hunting as you hunt. If you are the camera man on a deer hunt or two this season, here are some tips that will make viewing your e orts all the more enjoyable for others. The hunt starts with that rst cup of co ee. Get a little footage prior to leaving home, giving your hunter an opportunity to say where and why he is hunting that day. If he is driving, run the camera on him as you bounce along in his pickup. This is fun stu that sets the stage for viewing pleasure of the overall hunting event. Follow your hunter to his stand, lming him either getting into a tree stand or a ground blind. Once there, position your self behind and slightly above your hunters. This works best if you arrange things prior to actually going into the woods. Two tree stands are usually necessary, but not always. Making it work in a ground blind is nearly always much easier than lming whitetail hunts from a tree stand, but tree stand lming is a reality most outdoor videographers must learn to do. When you video record whitetail hunting, be it from a tree stand, ground blind, or even still hunting, you are in essence hunting that animal just the same as your hunter. Everything that you know about whitetail hunting from scent control to avoiding making unnecessary noise must be employed. If you are with your hunter, I am strongly of the opinion that the camera needs to be as close behind the shooter as possible. Communication is essential as either of you might see a buck rst. One of you will likely need to point out a deer, especially when hunting in heavy cover. Signal that work, but do not advertise your location to these animals. When Video recording your own hunts has become quite popular in recent years www.isoutdoors.com