Posing a la portrait Pointing your head to the side makes your passport photo immetiadly not valid - we admire the great way Ms. Hilton loves to pose but for your next passport photo keep it simple	Background noise Mr. Barkley - keep this background piece out of the pic
Too light contrast Eminem we know you can make the photo light just a bit darker	Closed eyes Let's ignore for a second the background noise here.  Although this should be an easy one, but in our case Mr. Bushwick keeps his eyes shut (or some part of them)
Unneutral expression Mr. Lil Wayne - the biometrics will go off the wall with such expression	Open mouth Lindsay, please keep your mouth closed. Apparently, the biometrics computers get nervous when they encounter the white color of the teeth
Too dark contrast Nothing to do with Mr. Tyson'S skin color, the biometrics machines and the State Dep. folks would reject this photo due to dark contrast	Uncleared eyes Nicole's left eye is slightly covered by her beautiful hair - a big no-no for passport photos
Background shadow Even the respectful Mr. Blumenthal's photographer got this mistake here.  How to avoid this? simply stand a bit farther from the wall to avoid the shadow	Looking off the camera The eyes should always be pointed forward.  Ms. Foxy Brown we're here! look at us!

Source: the smoking gun's mugshots

Been a pleasure getting the warm enthusiastic appluase from the Consumerist blog.  From the day we started the ePassportPhoto way back in 2005, we felt there's some serious gap between what the photoshops and the Walgreens' are charging us and the actual value they provide.  Passport photos to all - for free.  Of special notice, I wanted to say thanks to WILMAWONKER who posted this great photo.  Great to see that even the ePassportPhoto.com has serious competition out there!

At epassportphoto you upload your photo, crop it according to your country's standard guidelines, and save the resulting 4x6" image—that's six 2x2" ID shots—to your computer to print wherever you like, whether it's at home, from an online service, or at that same CVS with the myopic camera operator.

Not only will you be able to control the photo lighting and quality (and retake the photo until you're happy with it), but you'll have four more 2x2" shots than you get for $8 at CVS or Walgreens. And if you need any more incentive to cut the drugstore out of the process, consider that they also produce sets of six photos at a time—they just refuse to give you more than two unless you pay extra:

While we waited for the photos to print out, I saw (with my own eyes) that the photographs were printed on a 4″ x 6″ photo paper - and there were 6 copies on it. Then the dude coolly cut away 4 copies, disposed them, and handed us the remaining two copies.