Mounting a camera low to the ground

One spot in particular I've been mounting my camera only 1' off the ground to get a good picture. It's on a slope about 150 yards from the house, well, really it's hard to find any flat ground around here. Check out my setup and results. Would I be better placing the cam higher with an adjustable mount for a good downward angle or leaving it low as is?

 

Looks like a fine setup to me, I've been slowly lowering many of my cams. The lower you can get them without chopping off the bucks antlers seem to produce the best pics in my opinion.

 

Thanks for the advice, A.V. As you can see I have a block of wood in back of the camera at the top and still think I could lower it another couple inches.

 

I had a cam 6" off the ground (on a slope) and got some decent pics out of it. I got 10x more pics of small game this way also.

 

Thanks for the pics, airenlow, like I said I even thought about lowering mine a little. Been getting lots of crows, squirrels, blue jays, woodpeckers, cardinals, possums, etc. Never got a hawk or owl pic yet but I know they're here. The camera has been moved away from that spot a few weeks. Come spring I'm putting some minerals down there and some corn, then a week or so later put the camera back as low as I can get it.

 

To me mounting a camera low wouldnt be good if you had a camera that throws off a ton of light at night. Some cameras you can pull it off.

I really havent mounted my cams super low. waist height is the lowest. I will try this year.
Take that back, I laid a Moultrie I 40 on the ground angled up againest some brush over a scrape, did pretty good.

 

All my cams are no more than knee high, some even lower. I think it makes for much greater detail. I also try to position the camera so that the subject will be no more than 18-24 inches from the camera. Not saying that what anyone else does is wrong, it's just what I do.

Blessings..........Pastorjim

 

Thanks all for the info. Typically I have always set my cameras waist high or higher. I was interested in the pic-n-stic mini(s) but was worried about the maximum height. I think this thread has alleviated those concerns.

I also think one could hide them a little better. Only thing I would still be concerned with is vegetation growth in the summer months.

 

^ you will love the stic N pic. Possibilities are endless.

 

I like the FOV at around waist high so that's what I prefer from a photographers POV.

However my deer don't look at the camera with them hanging over 5', at least as much. The drawback is it's harder to get an exact field of view because of the angle.

 

Thanks for all the opinions, advice, and responses. It's interesting because all the instructions in my camera manuals say to place the camera at least 3' above ground. If I did that, I'd miss quite a few pics except on my Covert.

I need some opinions here on this setup. The camera has been moved but I plan on placing another one there later.

I place corn about 14' from in front of the camera. On small game it's still cutting off parts of the subject. Do you think it would be better to lower the camera or place the corn farther way, maybe 5' to 6'?

The camera is a cheapo Moultrie A-5, will only take one motion detected pic per minute, but still does a decent job. But I still got lots of pics. I'll put a better camera down there later, it will probably be a Moutrie M-100 I already own, or if I can get a good deal buy a Covert Red or a better Moultrie.