How to take a passport photo at home
A practical setup for taking an acceptable passport photo with a phone: where to stand, how to light it, and the mistakes that cause most rejections.
Guides
How to take, size and print a passport photo that gets accepted the first time.
Why passport photos get rejected
The reasons applications actually come back: wrong size, wrong head height, shadows, glasses, expression, and photos that are simply too old.
Printing passport photos so they come out the right size
Why a correctly cropped photo still prints at the wrong size, what DPI actually does, and how to check the result with a ruler.