[HN Gopher] Passport Photos
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Passport Photos
Author : gaws
Score : 218 points
Date : 2024-11-06 21:23 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (maxsiedentopf.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (maxsiedentopf.com)
| meowster wrote:
| I was expecting some kind of article about an issue with passport
| photos or some kind of exploit, maybe photoshopping so it looks
| like the person but fools automatic facial recognition...
|
| but was pleasantly surprised instead.
| throw03172019 wrote:
| Thanks for the good laugh. Looks great!
| ale42 wrote:
| They're very funny indeed. I doubt they are AI-generated, they
| would the best AI images I've ever seen. If they are, there
| must be a lot of post-processing. But the artist being among
| others a photographer, I imagine they're actual photos. See
| other series on the website too, e.g.
| https://maxsiedentopf.com/19-off-amelie-pichard/
| throw03172019 wrote:
| Thank you for the link!
| kevinsync wrote:
| The fish cursor is a delightful touch lol. I especially
| appreciate not knowing where the anchor point is hahaha
| pimlottc wrote:
| I was confused why so many of the photos had a random fish it
| them until I realized that was the cursor...
| shrx wrote:
| Hugged to death :(
| accrual wrote:
| Hug text: The website is temporarily unable to service your
| request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later.
| bravura wrote:
| "Wear a tuxedo for your ID photos." - Glenn O'Brien (TV Party,
| Downtown 81, the Style Guy)
| xattt wrote:
| I've always thought to go unkempt and unshaven.
|
| This is so that I would be recognized from my passport if I was
| detained for several months in a sketchy country.
| chgs wrote:
| It's odd, last time I went to the US they barely glanced at
| my photo
| telesilla wrote:
| I believe the photo is encoded in the digital passport
| contents and the computer will check your face in the
| camera to see it matches. No human involved. Many countries
| have automatic passport gates now using this method.
| alexanderchr wrote:
| If they already have your picture the agent will usually
| know who you are before you have even handed over your
| passport. The tech has gotten eerily good.
| TeMPOraL wrote:
| A decade ago, I was sent for a two-month business trip to
| China. I didn't have a valid passport (didn't need it within
| EU/Schengen Area) and had to make one in a hurry. I went to
| take my photo unkempt but freshly shaved. While in China, I
| didn't bother shaving, but I did get myself a haircut, that
| left me almost bald (communication mishap). One month in, I
| had to spend a weekend in Hong Kong to renew the work visa.
| On my way back, I happily handed my passport to the border
| control officer, and then spent terrifying 15 minutes trying
| to convince him, his colleague and then his superior, that
| the clean-shaved unkempt person in the photo and the near-
| bald, bearded person in front of them, are in fact the same
| person.
| teractiveodular wrote:
| Hugged to death, here's an archive copy: https://archive.is/uPMjd
| vallode wrote:
| Oh! Something I took a part in on HN. That's a first. Almost
| everything there was practical. Highly recommend checking out all
| of Max's work, beaming with creativity.
| xoxxala wrote:
| Clever usurpation of expectations _and_ artistic.
| eric_h wrote:
| this really makes me regret doing nothing like this when I
| recently had my passport photos taken.
| nickjj wrote:
| I had my photo taken by an employee at the post office where
| they submit the application. It would have been fun to walk in
| and start duct taping myself to the wall without saying a word.
| cbsks wrote:
| > Can I smile in my passport photo?
|
| > Yes. Make sure your eyes are open and your mouth is closed in
| your photo.
|
| https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-app...
| madeofpalk wrote:
| > Neutral expression (not smiling, laughing or frowning)
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| https://www.passports.gov.au/PhotoGuidelines
| redundantly wrote:
| Just got passports for my kids recently. My 14-year old was
| scowling in his photo. They accepted it.
| dylan604 wrote:
| They know that nobody standing in front of a customs
| officer that is looking at their photo will actually be
| smiling. So having it neutral or even scowling as you
| experience will be much more likely to match. /s
| wasabi991011 wrote:
| Yet on the same page, they have
|
| > Pose and Expression: Have a neutral facial expression with
| both eyes open and mouth closed.
|
| In my view, neutral and smiling are incompatible, but I guess
| that is up to interpretation.
| crmd wrote:
| My last Irish passport photo was rejected for smiling (I'm
| American born). The embassy lady said your expression is
| supposed to be "dour".
| yapyap wrote:
| lol I thought these were AI generated at some point too just
| because of how silly they are
| alimoeeny wrote:
| Don't forget to scroll down the page. The girl with the wine
| glasses is my favorite. And the guy taped to the wall.
| jonny_eh wrote:
| All the fun stuff is happening out of frame.
| rconti wrote:
| It's a lot of "fun" trying to get acceptable photos. Last week I
| went to my local American Automobile Association (AAA) office to
| get an International Driver's Permit (IDP). It's just a
| translation of your license, which is valid for 1 year. I had to
| take 2 passport-sized photos with me, which I did.
|
| But I was told they wouldn't be accepted because I had long hair
| and a beard in them, but short hair and no beard now. That's
| absurd, because it's the same photo used in both of my passports,
| and there's no requirement that you don't alter your appearance
| from your passport photo. Somehow border guards can crack the
| code.
|
| Amusingly, my California driver's license shows short hair and no
| beard, but the AAA person wasn't even looking at my CA license at
| the time. What happens if I grow long hair and a beard before I
| travel? Was he just trying to upsell me on a $9.99 photo?
|
| We had a hell of a time getting the UK passport authorities to
| accept the photos we sent in for her passport; they recommend
| getting your photos taken at an "official" UK location where the
| digital photos are identified by a code you send in. Well, we
| happened to be traveling through Australia during this timeframe,
| so we were able to stop at an Australian Post Office, which
| supposedly had the same "digital" system, but instead of a code
| to send to the UK authorities, they handed us printed photos and
| a web link. Thankfully I was able to use the web link to download
| the photo and upload it to the UK site, where it was approved
| almost immediately, and the new passport arrived back at our home
| before we returned from our trip. But there's no user-obvious
| criteria that was being used to reject the SEVERAL rounds of
| photos we had sent to the UK earlier.
| dylan604 wrote:
| > But I was told they wouldn't be accepted because
|
| yeah, and I would have expected nothing less. from my personal
| experience, the photos were required to be recent. just based
| on your having visited a barber would signal to me that the
| photos were not recent. even if you visited the barber while
| you waited for the 1-Hour Photo guy to finish, a logical person
| would realize this was not going to work out well
| stevenhubertron wrote:
| This is the web I miss.
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