In Norway the police does it when you go get a passport. They no longer allow you to bring them with you. They also have booths if you need passport-photos for other purposes.
I used Walgreens. While I wasn’t unhappy with my photo, my standards aren’t very high. The customs guy doesn’t care provided it nominally looks like me and no one else is going to be looking at it.
I’ve always taken my own. Touch it up with Photoshop a little so I’m not completely hideous, and attach it to my application after printing on photo paper. I’ve yet to have one returned to me. I’ve also never had a bad passport photo! Those things last a decade. Who wants a bad one!?
Costco. About $5 for 4 photos
Bingo. That’s exactly what I did in July when I had to renew my passport. The free app had all the guidelines of what should be where and automatically created two photos at the correct size, all I had to do was upload it to CVS’s online printing service and pick it up.
I got mine at CVS. The government had no problem with it.
Ten years ago, the passport section of my local post office would take the photo (it had a special two-lens camera that, in effect, took both passport photos at once).
Don’t trust the post office website. I had to hike to Walgreens in 20 degree weather because the post office didn’t have a passport photographer available like their website had mentioned. My passport picture is awful, since I was extremely angry at having to go to Walgreens. I could have gotten the pic done easily at a Walgreens across the street from me, but I stupidly relied on the USPS website.
Quality isn’t really important as long as it is within the size tolerance. Once you get the photos, make sure your head fits within the outlines in the template. Don’t let them argue that it’s close enough; make them retake it. I learned from experience that the photo will be rejected if it isn’t exact.
This. Taken in my basement. Simple.
Post office.
We did everything including photos at the post office.
Wow! 30-some posts in & no one else has said AAA yet.
Perhaps because no one who has posted got their passport photos at AAA? I know it’s hard to believe, but it might actually be true.
FedEx, and it worked fine. The lines at the Post Office are too long for me to even want to see if they do it.
And you should all thank technology, since getting a passport photo is a lot easier than it used to be.
I take my own passport photos too. I wanted to do some light “airbrushing” of a blemish on my face. I read the guidelines and saw that it’s not permitted to do any retouching except for removing red-eye.
As a Walgreen’s Photo Technician, it makes me very pleased to see the replies here. 
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Local train station photo booth with specific feature for taking passport photos. About US$7.00 for a set of 5 pics in two different sizes.
Industrial Light and Magic.
South Africa can’t be the only place where the photo is taken by, you know, the people actually giving you the passport, themselves, straight into their computer system, can it? The notion of having to bring along a teeny envelope with your own photos is at least …10 … years out of date
We still need them for driver’s licences application forms, though (the licence photo, itself, is taken by them like the passport one) - and there’s a kiosk at most every driver’s licence place where they take them, so that’s where I go.
This would be hampered in the USA by our…decentralized attitude toward stuff like identification. The vast majority of passports are issued to people the State Department has not ever interacted with directly, so they can’t take the picture.