I hunt a smaller piece of property that is used primarily as a bedding and staging area where deer spend all day, then move out to feed at night then come back in the wee hours of the morning. I have been able to very effectively get pictures without any bait or attractant whatsoever just by placing my cameras in pinch points. My best producing cameras are the ones that cover the primary ingress and egress routes to bedding areas. Narrow sections of food plots can also be really good, if it is narrow enough that a camera can capture a picture all the way across it. I would also say that in my mind, bait or minerals don't really attract deer that aren't already there; it just brings the deer that are already in the area in front of your cameras. Extrapolating from that I would say that your bucks are either heading elsewhere when the acorns drop or have access to a wide enough area of oaks that they don't have to travel very far to find something to eat. But if you are struggling with getting pictures where you think you have choke points, I would say put cameras where you see deer. When you hunt where are you looking most for deer to come out? Put a camera there. Where do you look next when a deer hasn't come out from your first spot? put your next camera there. Rinse and repeat until you have covered all your bases or run out of money for cameras and batteries and sd cards etc.
PS, don't check them too often especially if you are putting out minerals or bait, you get LOTS of scent pollution that way. Interesting story: I was running cameras on a different farm that I used to hunt, and had corn out with minerals, got loads of pictures too. But one day I decide for the heck of it that I would put another camera up in the same spot, but facing the opposite direction of the camera I had looking at the corn. Low and behold I got pictures of the biggest buck I have ever seen actively avoiding the bait site. since then I go conservative with checking cameras.
Long post but hopefully something useful in there.
