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How does she ?


How does she ?
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Copyright: Wolf JW (wautersw) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 654 W: 98 N: 482] (3161)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2004-07-08
Categories: Daily Life
Camera: Canon A80
Exposure: f/4.5, 1/100 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Travelogue: The Minho trail
Date Submitted: 2006-09-01 14:40
Viewed: 933
Points: 8
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This woman was selling chickens on the market in Barcelos. The chickens were alive but the lay on the ground (as you can see) and kept very still. How did she do that ? I don't know. Our chickens wouldn't, that's for sure ;-)

PP: Cropped and sharpened after resize
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  • xuaxo Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2617 W: 179 N: 2433] (4089)
  • [2006-09-01 15:16]

Dag Wolf,
When I saw the thumbnail I thought: that's the woman from Ponte da Barca! But in the bigger picture I see she's another. I have a photo (not posted yet) of a similar situation, also in Minho province. I like your photo because it shows also a lot of the surroundings of the chickens seller.
Now, How does she?. I'm almost sure that is the way my mother did: tying (fastening) the feet of the chickens with a rope.
Goeienacht,
Francisco

Francisco (xuaxo) is absolutely right. It is the only way of keeping them quite. Your picture is very nice although the composition would benefit by placing the lady off center.
Antonio

Hello Wolf,
Fantastic picture, love it. I like photos of market scenes. I do believe you can hypnotise a chicken by drawing a line on the ground in front of its beak whilst its head is on the ground. I have seen it done before. Love the photo. Thank you for sharing.
Cheers,
Debbie

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  • drm Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 92 W: 56 N: 45] (406)
  • [2006-09-09 7:20]
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Hi Wolf, I like the subject of this shot. It's not something you see everyday, so I consider it a great TE post. As far as composition is concerned, I don't like that head sticking out from the main lady's head :) Maybe if you had changed your POV slightly you would have been able to hide it. At fist I didn't like all the clutter in the image eiether, but it's a market scene, so I've changed my mind. Just to be annoying and picky, I would have cropped out that rear mirror in top-left corner.
Mario
P.S. Once I saw a similar scene with lambs instead of chickens and I became a vegetarian for 6 years!

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  • aralda Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 657 W: 74 N: 344] (2881)
  • [2006-09-17 14:15]

Hi Wolf,
Great shot from a market in Portugal. I love seeing the woman with her chickens, but also the other fellows and women in the back. I agree that the chicken may come with tied feet!
Raluca

Interesting market scene. We get a lot of ambience there though I would agree an off-center composition would have been a better chice probably. And yes even I suspect tied feet to be the reason why the chickens dont move.

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