Where do YOU go to get your passport photo taken? Where do you find they know what they’re doing?
We have some fairly strict regulations in the UK regardingpassport photos but as we have a decent printer and camera we just got some photo paper and did them ourselves following the guidelines. We didn’t have any problems when we sent them in.
The last passport photo I had taken was taken at a U.S. Post Office by a U.S. postal worker.
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Thousands of Post Offices™ around the U.S. accept first-time passport applications for the United States Department of State. Post Offices that accept passport applications offer products and services for both first-time and renewal passport applications. Some locations can take your passport photo.
I just go to Walgreens.
Quick, cheap, and easy.
I had my current passport photo taken at Walgreens, as well. They offer it as a specific service, and assuming that the person at the camera counter knows what they’re doing, it’s pretty straightforward.
My experience is that this is an unwarranted assumption when it comes to Walgreens and passport photos.
Walmart is where I’ve gone.
The last time I needed one, I went to the Fedex Office location. They use a special camera (I think from Polaroid) that’s designed for the purpose. It takes two photos at once, and I think there is marking on the viewfinder so the operator can frame the photo according to the requirements. It really doesn’t require much, if any skill.
(But I know someone who needed a photo for a foreign country and the requirements were non-standard. So she went to a local photo shop with a printout of the instructions. The guy at the counter carefully read them and took photos to meet the requirements.)
Nowadays you can just send in a good quality digital photo and they’ll crop it for you.
I had mine done at Costco. They did an adequate job.
Who was it that said, “When you start to look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home?”
Just had ours done at Costco. Best price, sized to whatever country you want them for. And it was quick too!
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This is better suited to IMHO, so let’s move it to there (from GQ).
Yes, since ~2008, I have done them myself. They are taken with my camera and printed on photo paper with my office or home printer. The use of photo-editing software helps.
My local library is a one-stop shop for passport applications and photos.
Either Walgreens or cvs. Those places all look alike to me.
Walgreens for me.
I can actually attest to their accuracy because I just got my passport last week.
Post office. Its handy and the price/cost is within reason.
A town hall near where I was staying hosted a monthly one-stop passport clinic where you could submit your application, pay the fee, present your supporting documents and have your picture taken. It would have been really convenient, except that the birth certificate I had didn’t contain all the required information. Luckily, I happened to be a half hour’s drive from the village where I was born. I was able to drive there, get a new certificate, and return to the passport clinic the same day. If I’d been at home, 400 miles away, I would have had to wait for them to mail me a new birth certificate.
There are a dozen apps on iOS, android for taking the picture. Then have it sent to Walgreens for printing. $.17 total.
Stand against a white wall with good lighting in front of you. My children are wearing pajamas in their passport photos which never ceases to amuse me.