The view was ample and eliminated any worry about being silhouetted against bright sky behind the ridge top. Where cover is relatively heavy, think lower rather than higher. At a hunter's eye level, the forest canopy can appear brutally thick. Plant your backside on the ground, however, and visibility may increase tenfold. In grassy lowlands or open farm country, start with anything that breaks the monotony.
Hay bales count, as do old farm implements.
Being nearer the ground is not necessarily a hindrance on a deer hunt. Your first glimpse from a low-level blind may not be of ears and antlers, but it will reveal deer that hunters on foot may miss altogether. Rather than heads and tails, look for the horizontal lines of a sagging belly or a pair of spindly forelegs canted at odd angles to natural growth. Stuck in the ground and arranged just so, three leafy branches can be as effective as a wall of adobe bricks. Deer are not frightened of things they can't identify.