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Eastern Pennsylvania

1. Only take pics of your plants in full sun. The extreme contrast of the shadows makes it look like you have no weeds and the green of the leaves is over the top.

2. If you are growing an orange pumpkin. Only take pics late in the day, and be sure that the sun is at your back. This ensures that the pumpkins look as orange or better yet more orange than they actually are.

3. If you choose to put an object in the picture, like a beer can, be sure to put it slightly behind the pumpkin. This includes posing with yourself and the pumpkin. The optical illusion makes your pumpkin look big.

4. When you pise with your pumpkin for a photo, have the photographer be as low to the ground as possible. This further develops the illusion that you have a very big pumpkin.

5. Come up with a really good story about why your pumpkin almost made it to the weighoff.

;-D hope you have enjoyed the this. What advice do you all have for a good growing season?

7/8/2017 9:04:33 PM

Wisconsin

Lol great advice

7/8/2017 10:09:40 PM

JACKSON, WISCONSIN. ; )

Why not just wait 14 days to show how big it is we call that sand bagging here in wi.... good tips ..... mike is the king of sand bagging in wi

7/8/2017 11:34:37 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

Sorta thinkin that the term "sandbagging" was originated in the GREAT "Commonwealth of Kentucky"!!! LOL Peace, Wayne P.S. Sand bagging is what you do when a flood is coming, "sandbagging" is more common when describing the size of your pkn!!

7/9/2017 1:10:03 AM

Central Illinois

say that your standing behind your pumpkin when you're really on your knees. extend your arm so it looks like your touching the pumpkin but your hand is 3 feet away

7/9/2017 8:16:22 AM

Central NY

Wooaah baitman...that's third or fourth year stuff right there...

7/9/2017 8:54:22 AM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

Depth of field

7/9/2017 8:56:12 AM

Eastern Pennsylvania

You could put one of those little pony bottles of beer next to the pumpkin and say it's a pint.

You could say your Silverado is having some issues and borrow your neighbors ford ranger on weighoff day.

7/9/2017 11:22:35 AM

Lloydminster/AB

This is all good advice and should take years off of the learning curve. Lol.

7/9/2017 12:31:07 PM

Massachusetts

Buy a smaller than regulation basketball.

7/9/2017 12:52:57 PM

Torrance, Ca.

Thats what Cecil does Tom.

7/9/2017 12:56:03 PM

South East

- use an ants perspective to make the pumpkin look bigger.
- have your wife pose but 3 to 4 behind the pumpkin. This adds about 500 lbs in picture estimates
- make a close up without anything else but the pumpkin in field of view. adds 500 to 1000 lbs in late season.
- Don't post at all and act as humble as realistically possible. Overdo it a little bit. This will make people think your sandbagging and at east will keep em guessing until they find out at the weigh off that you really had nothing special going.
- only post one or two pictures on bp in the beginning of the season and close up pumpkin pic in mid September. Rumors guaranteed!!

7/9/2017 1:47:41 PM

Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com

You could do like Don Young did 4 years ago. Posted a truthful diary entry that he had a pumpkin he couldn't load with a forklift and jaws would drop when people saw it. He had lots of people anxious to see it, me included. Our jaws did drop when we saw it was too small for a forklift and weighed 39.5#.

7/9/2017 3:11:15 PM

Haslet Texas

excuse the "new grower" opinion here but it sure seems like these are tactics that you "seasoned growers" are all quite guilty of! only after a couple of seasons on the forum have you realized that you were, in fact, that very DBAG that you speak of. I surely wouldn't point these trick photography tips to the "new grower" only! if you can make your shit look bigger than it really is without having to do the obvious, you're damn sure gonna do it!! don't lie! You are all competitively growing something, therefore you have the "mines bigger" mentality. id be willing to bet if you "old growers" coughed up your photo albums on your smartphones most of you have a dick pic with a traveler sized tube of tooth paste next to it! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

7/9/2017 3:55:26 PM

Central NY

...(Note to self)-- erase toothpaste photos...

7/9/2017 5:25:11 PM

Upa Creek, MO

Not picture related, but if you're like me and leave couple patch knives throughout the garden all season, spray paint them a camo bright yellow, orange and red so they are easier to find. Hand shovels too.

7/9/2017 5:48:52 PM

Bloomington Indiana

Just remember when the tailgate drops the BS stops. Toothpaste gives me a idea.

7/9/2017 5:51:28 PM

New Berlin, PA

Travel size listerine was always my choice

7/9/2017 9:33:45 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

Almost sounded like Saggy din't understand the way that poking & prodding works here, until the end...I'm so happy that I have a traveler's toothpaste to pose w/my lil pkn tomorrow. Today was day 10 & circ was 33"!!! Best ever for me! Peace, Wayne

7/10/2017 1:19:35 AM

Woodward, Oklahoma

Use a tiny notebook on top of the pumpkin and say it's full size.

7/10/2017 3:54:54 PM

Haslet Texas

its all in good fun! mine makes a standard tube of tooth past look like the traveler!! well my leaves atleast do. if I ever do get a fruit to set (I'm the new grower) you can bet you're arse the toothpaste photo is coming!! good luck to all

7/10/2017 11:12:42 PM

Deer Park WA

Y'all crack me up!
Best friends here talking BS before the plants have even shifted to the fruit mode! We can't keep keep up with vine burying much less figure out how to squeeze the last drop of our paste out the tube...

7/11/2017 12:58:46 AM

Connellsville, Pa

Orange With Envy, This is right up your alley buddy. Tell us your secrets of sand bagging.

7/11/2017 8:27:39 AM

Central Illinois

just say your at 20 dap when its actually 30dap

7/11/2017 8:38:13 AM

JACKSON, WISCONSIN. ; )

Lmao.........

7/11/2017 9:54:18 AM

JACKSON, WISCONSIN. ; )

I do like the tooth paste idea ...... or how about those 6 oz soda cans... I like i said before just post pics like 2 weeks old no one will ever know until scale day ..... or a patch tour

7/11/2017 9:55:58 AM

Arizona

Using the orange mill fab with reflective sunlight...That is one ORANGE KIN...maybe

7/11/2017 6:22:19 PM

Haslet Texas

hey big city, I know this is way off topic, but I keep hearing about this patch tour! could someone point me into the direction to get more info! sure would be cool for the tejas boy to come up north and see how you boys grow. I've never been north of of Kansas, Missouri, myrtle beach sort of line across the US. Waiiiiit a min..... that makes you all yanks!! oh boy hahahahahaha

7/11/2017 8:41:51 PM

stoughton WI

Saggy go to wisconsin giant pumpkin growers Web site, more info on there

7/11/2017 9:10:11 PM

Little-TON - Colorado

Or one could post pictures from the year before never seen of their fruit weeks ahead just to mess with mindZ.....lol I would never do that I dont think.....

7/12/2017 10:15:58 AM

Rhode Island

the bull shit stops when the tail gate drops

7/12/2017 4:50:48 PM

Haslet Texas

I don't plan on mine being able to fit in a pickup bed sooooo.... can't drop the tailgate

7/13/2017 10:01:31 AM