Magic tricks that improve light & stop the breeze

[Heroique]

Just curious – my magic tricks seem to be losing their effectiveness, and I need new ones.

For example, “I hate rabbits” used to slow the breeze – or quicken it, depending on my needs – but I think I’ve used-up its magic.

What reliable trick or incantation of yours can I try out?

And if you don’t use any, why not? Have you ever tried? It might make a believer out of you.

[Richard Wasserman]

I've found that I can stop the wind by holding my breath. Sometimes I have to not breathe for a very long time....

[Vaughn]

Sorry, but if I let others use my magic, it will get used up too fast...

[Heroique]

Sorry, but if I let others use my magic, it will get used up too fast...

That’s okay – I also have tricks I want to keep secret. ;^)

But as we all know, no trick lasts forever for any photographer – however, the magic of an exhausted trick does renew itself when someone else begins using it.

So if you have old tricks that don’t work anymore, please share so the rest of us can try it out...

[Vaughn]

Well, I have a staring contest with the wind -- if I win I get to take the photo.

[Leigh]

Regarding the light...

I merely remove my shades.

My radiant visage illuminates all who stand before me, and the world in which they live.

Then I wake up.

- Leigh

[Vaughn]

Yeah -- and I use to have incredible hang time as I soared to dunk the basketball. It would be the hang time that clued me in that it was a dream.

Vaughn - yes I have actually dunked on a regulation hoop

[Jody_S]

I yell at the clouds and tell the wind to bugger off. It doesn't help, but it makes me feel better.

[Vaughn]

I yell at the clouds and tell the wind to bugger off. It doesn't help, but it makes me feel better.

That reminds me of an old one-frame cartoon, a caveman is dancing and cursing on top of a rock pile is a huge storm. Two miserable wet cavemen are in the foreground and one of them says, "I don't know if he's doing any good, but at least he's trying something."

[Jerry Bodine]

Years ago, I had a composition all set up of a sunlit scene when a huge cloud moved over it and killed the light. I cupped my hands around my mouth in yelling fashion, looked upward and blew really hard. After quite some time the sunlight returned - it was a high cloud.