Chicken slaughter house
Jose A Martinez

Chicken slaughter house

They put the chickens head down in a cone case to be beheaded and processed after they die bleeded. I used a SB16 Nikon flash that has a supplementary fill-in flash that you can't turn off and caused a harsh shadow, but I had no choice because the slaughter house works before dawn. What you think? is harsh or it's ok.
Location
Oaxaca, Mexico
Equipment Used
Nikon F3, 28 lens, SB16 flash
Exposure
f:8 TTL
Film & Developer
Tri X, D76 1:1
Paper & Developer
neg scan
Harsh shadow, harsh subject. It works.
 
I agree with Mark - the hard light acts like a flash of realisation.
Was it difficult to get access to the slaughterhouse? I think in Sydney they prefer to keep under wraps what goes on there.
 
Thanks all. Goldie, it is difficult to get access to almost any slaughterhouse, but it's harder for the chicken. I've been rejected in all the more advance and industrialized chicken abattoirs, I guess that they don't like to show how they process the animals, mainly, how they kill them. The one of the photo is an artesanal one, if you can say so, and that's why I got the access, they sell the product in local markets and in small quantities.
 

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Thu, 17 April 2008 6:16 PM
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