Photographer’s Note
Here's another picture of some statues from the Bardo museum outside Tunis (to see some more click the Bardo link in the location information above). I can't tell you what these statues are but this is in the Carthage room so I guess they come from there. In the front you see a part of one of the many beautiful mosaics. The museum is housed in an old palace hence the title.
This is a detail from a much larger picture, hence the graininess and lack of sharpness. Because of the strange angle I had to shoot this from (as I mentioned in a previous note I was dodging hordes of tourists) this was the only version I thought worked. I posted a version of the original picture as a workshop so that you can tell me if this was a good choice. A while I was going for some kind of 'decapitated'-idea, since in the original there is a line of whole statues that ends with two without heads, but I couldn't figure out a way to crop it to get the lines working with the idea so I skipped that. Feel free to do a workshop on the original version as well if you have any good ideas. The other purpose of posting the other version as well is that it shows what this place looks like a little.
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nwoehnl
(120) 2004-02-14 14:00
I think you could actually also have posted the workshop version, Simon. It definitely has more of the architecture and artwork focus as it shows a lot of the interiors of this splendid place. Your posting here above is more of the "human interest" version, which is also nice as it places the guard and his more "modern" posture in contrast to the dignified statues. I think under the circumstances your crop made the most of what was possible.
I tried a workshop on the original, where I experimented for the first time with a perspective distortion. The end result is not much different from yours above, except that it was possible to show a bit more of the surroundings of the guard, placing him in an off-center position. Let me know what you think ...
Georges
(11185) 2004-02-14 15:52
Le cliché est bien beau mais la version originale est plusdétaillé et elmle nous montre l'ensemble de ces statue qui orne cette piece.Bravo pour la grande version Simon
Photo Information
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Copyright: Simon Mitternacht (mitternacht)
(1836) - Genre: People
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2003-07-00
- Categories: Daily Life, Architecture, Artwork
- Camera: Canon EOS 300, 28-90 mm 1:4-5.6, Kodak Gold 200, UV
- Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
- Date Submitted: 2004-02-14 6:20








