Need photo ideas! (And help restoring old photos!)?

Question

I need to develop some film 1st period tomorrow.

But I still have 21 pictures!

Ahhh!

So I need some suggestions. Tomorrow morning at school, or sometime prior is when I can take them.

Basically, home, neighborhood, bus, school.

Any ides or suggestions?

Also, I need to restore an old photo. It's got the basic problems, a few tears, some faded areas. Best I have to work with is Photoshop 7.0.

Can't give too many details here, I'm not one to have a keen eye for these things. But any basic tools I could use to restore simple flaws. Or even a link to a good online guide would be great. Thanks!

Answer 1

Ideas...



Do you have a pet? Pets are great and accessible subjects!



Do you have a piano or staircase? Play with the aperture and angles... (Ex: Get down even with the keys on one end, hold the camera vertically and shoot the keys all the way. Shoot with the smallest aperture you can, then the median aperture, then the widest. Do the same with the stairs shooting up of down, or along the banister...) Do close ups of hands on the keys... Open a music book and lay a flower or an instrument across it...



Do a place setting at the table... or better, 2, with a lit candle between them



A close up of a toy, or collection



A big fancy book (a family bible would do nicely) open with a bookmark in the middle...



Have any houseplants?



How about fruit?



Take a shot of your bowl of cereal before you dig in...



Hope that gets some ideas flowing...





As for the editing, PS7 is still an awesome program and I've done amazing restorations with it. Keep in mind that cloning and healing work hand in hand. You don't want it to look like a patchword quilt when you're done. Sometimes the best thing to do is copy a patch from elsewhere in the photo and then fix it into place, turning or flipping as needed.



Hope that helps! Good luck!

Answer 2

An original black and white photo was likely printed from a black and white negative. There is no color there to be "restored". What you can do is have it colorized. You have to tell them the colors, the skin tones, hair colors, etc. It won't look perfect, but might make you happy. Good luck!

Answer 3

take pics of things up close like the mail box, door knobs.

things with texture like carpet, pavement, or grass

Any kind of pattern you can find like tile, wall paper.

look for symmetry and repetition patterns, street signs with weird names. if you are using photoshop try using the spot healing brush for facial flaws. and look up youtube for instructions videos about touch ups there. and don't forget if your shooting indoors to have the right kind of film or the color correcting filter on.

Good Luck

Answer 4

walk around your home with a camera, be conscious of your surroundings, shoot everything, try everything