Ur photo is rejected!!!

“Stop!!! Your photo is rejected as you are smiling in it.” Have you ever heard of this line? Or is it new to you? Then hear this. This is a RULE in U.K. Your passport size photos are rejected in UK just because you are smiling in it. Around 15,000 photos are rejected in a short duration because of this rule. "The subject's expression should be neutral [non-smiling] with both eyes open, and mouth closed," says a rule cited in the rejection of a visa photograph of a tooth-showing person.


When it comes to some U.S. government photos, smiling is frowned upon. But most people won't know they're not supposed to smile unless they visit the U.S. State Department's Web site and read the lengthy set of instructions for photographs, including colors permitted for the background, proper lighting, directions for eye height, head orientation, and the necessary "natural expression" with no squinty eyes or flashing teeth.


The reason they specify for these instructions is that the United States and many other countries have had machine-readable passports with bar codes for a number of years, but now they are moving toward a system in which biometric information is to be included, too. A computer chip embedded in the passport would allow a cross check of the person presenting it by using a facial-recognition computer program as well as checks of other biometric information such as fingerprints You go to the airport, there will be a camera at the immigration counter or customs counter, and the system will compare your picture with the picture on the chip [in your passport or immigration document]. So in these cases a smile or blink may result is mismatch.

They are developing specs for smiling. And now to the photographers, you are supposed to say, “Don’t smile” instead of “Smile Please” or “Say Cheese”. When you are smiling for photos remember you follow the specs specified by U.S Government.

Comments

Serendipity said…
thanx pal for the info. didt know this be4.
11:57 AM
Janani said…
@Serendipity
yeah evn I didn't know this until I checked out DC
12:04 PM
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