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Passport Digital Photos
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- Lemon Half
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Re: Passport Digital Photos
On the glasses front, from one of Bree’s links:
You can’t wear sunglasses or tinted glasses. You can wear reading glasses but your eyes must show fully through clear lenses without glare or reflections.
You can’t wear sunglasses or tinted glasses. You can wear reading glasses but your eyes must show fully through clear lenses without glare or reflections.
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- Lemon Quarter
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Re: Passport Digital Photos
Bouleversee wrote:Thanks, Bree, but I thought I wouldn't be able to use digital anyway (see previous quote).
Use a digital camera to take as many as you need until you get one you like - then print it at a size that meets the requirements here...
https://www.gov.uk/photos-for-passports
...that's what I did.
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Re: Passport Digital Photos
PinkDalek wrote:On the glasses front, from one of Bree’s links:
You can’t wear sunglasses or tinted glasses. You can wear reading glasses but your eyes must show fully through clear lenses without glare or reflections.
From the other one, it's suggested you should take them off if you can...
Take glasses off
If you have to keep glasses on, your eyes must be fully visible.
Make sure there is no glare.
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- Lemon Quarter
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Re: Passport Digital Photos
Ah, I see. Will do. Thanks both. I'll read all the links in due course but have had other priorities this evening.
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- Lemon Slice
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Re: Passport Digital Photos
The simplest and cheapest thing is a PhotoMe booth. Six quid! It sets you in the correct position, checks the result is passport correct and gives you a code. When you apply for your passport you put the code in when the Passport Office web application process asks for it and tbe passport office finds your PhotoMe photograph and uses it.
Simples!
Simples!
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Re: Passport Digital Photos
tea42 wrote:The simplest and cheapest thing is a PhotoMe booth. Six quid! It sets you in the correct position, checks the result is passport correct and gives you a code. When you apply for your passport you put the code in when the Passport Office web application process asks for it and tbe passport office finds your PhotoMe photograph and uses it.
Simples!
Unfortunately uploading a digital photo, your own or the PhotoMe one, is only offered by the Passport Office web application process if you are renewing a passport issued on or after 2002, as tested by Clitheroekid here: viewtopic.php?p=132569#p132694
Ours are older than that, so the only option is a printed photo. A PhotoMe one would be OK for that too.
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Re: Passport Digital Photos
Except, as I said at the outset, the one it took of me was ghastly, as was my husband's.
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Re: Passport Digital Photos
tea42 wrote:The simplest and cheapest thing is a PhotoMe booth. Six quid! It sets you in the correct position, checks the result is passport correct and gives you a code. When you apply for your passport you put the code in when the Passport Office web application process asks for it and tbe passport office finds your PhotoMe photograph and uses it.
Simples!
When my son and I got our passports renewed a few years back we both found the PhotoMe booth to be very difficult to use as it was almost impossible to get far enough away from the camera to be in the frame it displayed. That is why we paid a bit more to have a person do it.
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Slarti wrote:tea42 wrote:The simplest and cheapest thing is a PhotoMe booth. Six quid! It sets you in the correct position, checks the result is passport correct and gives you a code. When you apply for your passport you put the code in when the Passport Office web application process asks for it and tbe passport office finds your PhotoMe photograph and uses it.
Simples!
When my son and I got our passports renewed a few years back we both found the PhotoMe booth to be very difficult to use as it was almost impossible to get far enough away from the camera to be in the frame it displayed. That is why we paid a bit more to have a person do it.
Slarti
Didnt have that problem. I was very impressed by the software which checked your height and framed the picture perfectly with no reflections from my glasses or shadows which the passport office wont allow.
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Re: Passport Digital Photos
tea42 wrote:
The simplest and cheapest thing is a PhotoMe booth.
Six quid!
It sets you in the correct position, checks the result is passport correct and gives you a code. When you apply for your passport you put the code in when the Passport Office web application process asks for it and tbe passport office finds your PhotoMe photograph and uses it.
My wife recently renewed her passport, and needed to provide a new photograph.
I took a couple of photos with her Android tablet, we uploaded a suitable one to the passport-website that passed the relevant criteria, and it was accepted without issues. Around 10 days later, her passport was delivered through the post.
So our method cost nothing at all, and was carried out in the comfort of our own home. I'm not quite sure that travelling to a PhotoMe booth and paying another six quid for the pleasure is either simpler or cheaper, so long as you've got a method of taking a basic photograph - I'd imagine the vast majority of mobile phones would be capable of this task quite sufficiently...
With regards to the quality of the photos, both in technical and aesthetic terms - these are passport photographs, they're not usually placed out onto the mantelpiece for general viewing and admiration....
Cheers,
Itsallaguess
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Itsallaguess wrote:My wife recently renewed her passport, and needed to provide a new photograph.
I took a couple of photos with her Android tablet, we uploaded a suitable one to the passport-website that passed the relevant criteria, and it was accepted without issues. Around 10 days later, her passport was delivered through the post...
Neither Bouleversee or I have the option to upload a photo as our expired passports were issued too long ago. Apparently they have to have a previous digital photo on record for that to be an option.
Your turnaround is encouraging, the guidance when I applied said 'three weeks'. I've yet to find out if my carefully printed 'selfie' is accepted - I'll report back if/when it is.
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Breelander wrote:Your turnaround is encouraging, the guidance when I applied said 'three weeks'. I've yet to find out if my carefully printed 'selfie' is accepted - I'll report back if/when it is.
You can use a free service like http://www.epassportphoto.com/93/Free/U ... port/step1 which will get the framing and sizing right before printing.
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Breelander wrote:Your turnaround is encouraging, the guidance when I applied said 'three weeks'. I've yet to find out if my carefully printed 'selfie' is accepted - I'll report back if/when it is.
Admittedly we were renewing "recent" passports, but each time we've had ours back in about a week.
Despite what it says on the website.
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PinkDalek wrote:
On the glasses front, from one of Bree’s links:
You can’t wear sunglasses or tinted glasses. You can wear reading glasses but your eyes must show fully through clear lenses without glare or reflections.
From the other one, it's suggested you should take them off if you can...
Take glasses off
If you have to keep glasses on, your eyes must be fully visible.
Make sure there is no glare
Making sure there is no glare, being the the snag when wearing glasses. The snag of not wearing glasses of course being that you can’t flipping see.
I don’t have a passport or photo driver license but needed a photo for a public transport pass. No probs, I thought. Off to the booth in the Post Office. You got 4 goes for a fiver.
First go, glasses on, as I normally wear glasses.
Position the bonce, click but photo shows glare of the flash where the pupils would be so obviously unsuitable.
Remove glasses but can no longer see the guidelines. Flash, nice photo of me leaning forward and squinting to try and see the sodding guidelines. “Drat”.
Bright idea, pop glasses on, position head, glasses off again. Not quick enough, sadly. Another “Drat” is in order.
The last photo was suitable, but by then I was grumpy, frowning and looking like I wanted to nut someone.
That now adorns my pass, though it rarely needs to be shown as I generally use it on automatic readers.
Certainly I would agree that having it done by a person would be better, and could probably include glasses as they would have more control over the lighting.
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Re: Passport Digital Photos
madhatter wrote:PinkDalek wrote:
On the glasses front, from one of Bree’s links:
You can’t wear sunglasses or tinted glasses. You can wear reading glasses but your eyes must show fully through clear lenses without glare or reflections.
From the other one, it's suggested you should take them off if you can...
Take glasses off
If you have to keep glasses on, your eyes must be fully visible.
Make sure there is no glare
Making sure there is no glare, being the the snag when wearing glasses. The snag of not wearing glasses of course being that you can’t flipping see.
I don’t have a passport or photo driver license but needed a photo for a public transport pass. No probs, I thought. Off to the booth in the Post Office. You got 4 goes for a fiver.
First go, glasses on, as I normally wear glasses.
Position the bonce, click but photo shows glare of the flash where the pupils would be so obviously unsuitable.
Remove glasses but can no longer see the guidelines. Flash, nice photo of me leaning forward and squinting to try and see the sodding guidelines. “Drat”.
Bright idea, pop glasses on, position head, glasses off again. Not quick enough, sadly. Another “Drat” is in order.
The last photo was suitable, but by then I was grumpy, frowning and looking like I wanted to nut someone.
That now adorns my pass, though it rarely needs to be shown as I generally use it on automatic readers.
Certainly I would agree that having it done by a person would be better, and could probably include glasses as they would have more control over the lighting.
Did you realise the whole thing was captured on a webcam!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0SbVFxl64A
John
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Breelander wrote:Itsallaguess wrote:...Around 10 days later, her passport was delivered through the post...
...Your turnaround is encouraging, the guidance when I applied said 'three weeks'. I've yet to find out if my carefully printed 'selfie' is accepted - I'll report back if/when it is.
Yes, the photo I printed was accepted - and the turnaround was prompt too, 12 days later my online application says 'printed and dispatched'.
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redsturgeon wrote:Did you realise the whole thing was captured on a webcam!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0SbVFxl64A
Hmm... Reminds me how I recently had an unsatisfactory experience in a booth with the photo for my new plastic driver's licence.
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Breelander wrote:- and the turnaround was prompt too, 12 days later my online application says 'printed and dispatched'.
Yes we recently renewed a passport, very quick turnround by the Passport Office but this was spoiled by the courier service (DX Secure) who claimed to have tried to deliver the new passport (at a time when we were at home) but clearly had not tried very hard (and did not leave a card). Eventually we had to go to the depot to pick it up.
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