Photo Me. On second thoughts, don't bother

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I would do that but then I would have to find a blind person to sign to say it was a good likeness.

― Emma, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I wish I had thought of that topless thing for my passport photo, damn.

― Ally, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Sorry to be boring and sensible, but choose booth that offers black and white. Better for everybody including the Kate Moss' of this world. Sit slightly side on and adjust seat so slightly lower than directed. Raise face so looking down into camera (helps minimise a generously proportioned nose). Wrap flat board in foil and hold out of shot under head (like those tanning reflectors the Yanks have) to flatter double chin/turkey neck etc. Wear foundation and DEFINITELY some blusher on middle of cheeks (so look as if just had brisk walk in normal life, but will look normal and not wan and deathly pale in photo). Hair down or fluffed around face so avoid terrorist-cell look (also for this - avoid black polo necks). Do not expose teeth to glare of flash, half smile but nothing sinister. If in doubt, do calm/thoughtful/serious expression. And take as long as you bloody well like.....you'll be carrying the results around for a decade so a little time now and less stress subsequently.

I think I've gone on way long enough.

― Wilfred the Beagle, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think if I start walking round with a board covered in silver foil I will get sectioned. And I do not have a 'generously proportioned nose' that needs minimising. I don't know if they still have black and white photo booths. Do they?

― Emma, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I wonder if it's possible to get a passport made where the photo is a picture of your ass?

― Dan Perry, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yeah, all over the place in the US, it is my dream to pile all my friends into one and take pornographic pictures.

― Ally, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Wear something you love.

I'd rather wear someone I love. Any suggestions?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dan's assport idea is a good one. I think he knows it is technically possible to take a picture of an ass in photo booth, Ally. He was just hoping for it to become official policy. It will be so, in his modelled-on-teen-sex-comedies utopia.

― N., Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

In the UK it has to be a colour photo now. So they can check eye colour and hair colour and then boot you out the country when you dye your hair & wear contact lenses.

On other matters I just pushed a bus.

― Pete, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I wore something I love: cod and chips (possibly as a result of Dan's advice to wear a slack face). Dan gives poor advice.

― Tim, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm pretty sure Ally was talking to Emma there, not me.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I don't have a passport but I look well INDIE on my driving license (well I was 17) with my floppy fringe + scowl.

― DG, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I was talking to anyone who wants to see me and my friends in compromising positions.

― Ally, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I do.

― the pinefox, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I've got no interest in your ass. It has been devalued through overexposure.

― N., Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Pinefox, you dirty rotter.

― N., Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'd rather wear someone I love. Any suggestions?

Chris Robinson? Zac De La Rocha?

― Dan Perry, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

As Britney, by your own calculations, outranks them both, the choice is clear. CC is calling for you, BTW.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I've had to show mine to LOADS of people recently - getting bank accounts and that. I always mumble something like 'ha ha, j'étais étudiant' while making a mental note to piss in their coffee or something.

― Will, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

oh shit, they don't *have* to be colour do they? i just sent my application off with b&w ones, oh bugger bugger bugger. my pics were rubbish obv. but at least i don't have the straggly mullet i had 10 years ago...

― CarsmileSteve, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Just so we have closure on this important issue, I had the pics done last night. Following some of the advice above (not the topless stuff though, not very appropriate in Oxford Circus tube at 5:15) I piled on 3 inches of makeup with a trowel, let my hair down and gazed thoughtfully into the camera. The resulting pics are not too gothly pale, though the eye makeup is pretty scary. I also look as miserable as sin. Oh well, when I am 36 and rich & successful I can look back and laugh at what a mournful girl I used to be.

― Emma, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

And now for aperture again! I'm getting mine done on Saturday, ugh.

― Tom, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

just had one done for an id card (all new fangled digital pic thingy) without any warning ("stand just there, and... thanks, here you go"). first since i cut my long hair off (over two years ago) and i really don't recognise myself. weird

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Got them done - they're not totally awful though a couple of spots show up nastily. I seem to be rocking a rumpled-contrarian Christopher Hitchens look, which is OK but sadly 'Hitch' is in his late forties and it suits that age a little bit better.

― Tom, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

We got our last department ones done w/ digital camera, and aha, I thought, oho, now we're looking at some good photos, not the normal kind with the flat hair and the bunface, or the nervy selfconscious ones that turn out all down the nose like not quite posh spice, so I said, hey, could I be like digitally manipulated? thinking, well, it's a shot, and maybe they'll at least let me pick the best one, and I looked all hopeful and laughed nervously (heh heh heh) and when I turned round they were all looking at me, you know, like I was the vainest person they'd ever met (which I doubt, because the day before M had spent 20 minutes perfecting what she calls her ladyprincessdi pose, in her head all doe eyes under long lashes but kind of creepy if you ask me, and she was trying to say this was some kind of irony but hooooo no, I don't think so), so anyway they gave it two tries and they were both the same old awful and can you tell this has been festering for two weeks???... *incoherent sobs* ... So, you know, Christopher Hitchens - wow.

― Ellie, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I have the jon of been a service engineer for PMI (photo-me)

The best colour to wear is a red top or a grey one as this will compliment any skin tone. The reason why you have to have a white background is for the passport agency or DVLA to scan the photo.

Besides this the camera never lies!!!!!!!!!!

― , Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I wish it would occasionally.

I don't actually look anything like Christopher Hitchens, by the way.

― Tom, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I saw Christopher Hitchens on TV the other night. God he was looking rough.

― N., Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

A-HA I am wearing a red top! My skin tone feels VERY complimented thank you very much. I love H&M and their 'small' sizes which fit me. GLEE!

― Sarah, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I too am wearing a red top and it is making me look as pale as a dead person. Oh dear. Also my stupid skirt is giving me hassle by clinging to my lacey tights when I try to walk anywhere so I have to keep stopping and disentangling myself.

― Emma, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

If you're planning any dramatic change of hairstyle you have to be careful. My passport has me with a shaved head on it and I foolishly and drunkenly showed it to someone once and now my friends are always like "SHOW IT SHOW IT, SHOW US THAT PHOTO, HA YOUR SHAVED HEAD.....HA NOT SHAVED NOW IS IT NO? HA". Not to mention bouncers who say "jesus you let yourself go alot there son".

― Ronan, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ronan, I love you for this.

― N., Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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