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Make A Wish
Make A Wish
Sammie


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Challenge: Superstitions & Urban Legends II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Taos, New Mexico
Date: Jun 25, 2006
Aperture: F4.5
ISO: 640
Shutter: 1/800
Galleries: Emotive, Water
Date Uploaded: Jun 27, 2006

 Editing: Crop; adjusment layers for levels, curves & saturation; flatten image; exposure adjustment - exposure, offset & gamma; shadow/highlight tool - increase midtone contrast; noise removal; resize, smart sharpen; save for web.

This is a rock-fountain thing on the Bent Street Plaza in Taos, New Mexico. It has several different pools and levels and they all run into and out of each other. It's very peaceful to sit by it and listen to the water babbling.

Lots of people throw coins (mostly pennies) into the pools to make a wish. I am glad I thought of a good "lucky" superstition to photograph for the challenge. Most of the ideas I had at first were things that were omens for bad luck.

If you voted a 5 or 6 on this picture and then bother to read this afterwards - you are granted one wish - sure to come true. If you voted 7 to 9 on my picture and bother to read this afterwards you are granted two wishes that will be sure to come true. If you gave this picture a 10 - you will get three wishes that are bound to come true!!! No wishes granted for those who voted under 5 - it's bad luck to give a score that low.

I took a LOT of pictures of this to get the splash as my husband threw in pennies.

Statistics
Place: 27 out of 97
Avg (all users): 5.7348
Avg (commenters): 6.1667
Avg (participants): 5.5111
Avg (non-participants): 5.7666
Views since voting: 877
Views during voting: 476
Votes: 362
Comments: 12
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/04/2006 07:10:55 AM
Creativity:1/2
Aesthetics:1/2
Lighting:1/2 Due to the extreme light comming off of many of the coins
Focus:2/2
It Factor:1/2
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/04/2006 12:17:51 AM
love this shot ... simple and perfect
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/03/2006 04:18:08 PM
Meets Challenge: 1/1
Lighting: 1/2
Focus: 1/2
Creativity: 1/2
Aesthetics: 2/3

Hopefully there are no fish or other wildlife living in that water. Most aquatic life are harmed by the metals leeched into the water over time. Aquatic snails in particular will die if there are any traces of copper.

The exposure is a bit blown out on the reflection of some coins, but aside from that it was okay. Lighting is a bit flat, but a decent photo anyways. Everyone likes to see a splash :-)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/01/2006 10:46:36 PM
Oh I love these types of ponds.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/30/2006 08:16:31 AM
Oooohhh...a water shot! ;^) What I want to know is how did you turn around fast enough to get this shot after tossing that coin over your shoulder? He-he. This is a nice idea. Not sure that the wide angle is helping any here. What I mean is, the subject may have more impact if it was brought in closer and do some major cropping of the surrounding rocks. JMO of course.

Good luck in the challenge.
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 06/29/2006 03:06:28 PM
I think the splash makes the picture! 5
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 06/29/2006 03:13:02 AM
Nice work on capturing the splash coin.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/28/2006 09:12:08 PM
0-2 Meets Challenge: 2
0-3 Technical Merit: 2
0-3 Creativity: 3
0-2 The Wow Factor: 1
Total = 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/28/2006 06:34:20 PM
I think I'd prefer this if we could see a little more - i.e where is this pool? The water splash is nice
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 06/28/2006 12:23:47 PM
Excellent capture of the water splash! :)
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 06/28/2006 10:29:16 AM
nice water capture, and interesting concept.
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 06/28/2006 05:35:45 AM
I like you caught the 'plunk' of the coin, but, for some reason this image isn't that interesting to me. its a great idea. But maybe the darkness of the rocks makes it bland. Mostly when I hear or have seen this superstition, it is in a well or a fountain, this apears to be a river? can't really tell.
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