Australian Passport Photographers in Tampa
Finding Australian passport photographers in Tampa is a tough job. The Australian passport office in Washington, DC is one of the strictest consulates on the planet when it comes to critiquing an Australian passport photo. First of all, you’re required to apply in person, in Washington, DC. You can’t just mail you photos with an application like the US passport.
The required size is 35x45mm, not something that is easily achieved by the local drug store or auto club. In fact, asking a drug store employee to create an Australian passport photo in millimeters will likely make their head explode. Most have no idea what the Metric System is, or that the only countries on the planet that still use the Imperial (inches, feet, yards, miles) are the US, Burma, and Liberia!
The required head size is between 32-36mm, a very narrow window, and that measurement is calculated between the chin and the top of the skull, not the top of the hair, which makes it difficult to judge on women with a lot of hair (i.e. Marge Simpson).
Those two measurements are tough enough, but when you consider that the Australian passport photo must meet the highest print resolution on the planet – 450-600ppi – then you KNOW you must pay a visit to a professional photographer for your images to pass muster with the Australian Consulate.
To guarantee your chances of success with finding good Australian passport photographers in Tampa, call Tampa’s foreign passport expert at Newsome’s Studio of Photography, located in North Tampa (Carrollwood) at 10012 N. Dale Mabry Hwy, Suite 219, Tampa, FL 33618 (in Cypress Run Office Park, behind Starbucks, at the corner of Linebaugh Ave and N. Dale Mabry Hwy).
Because Newsome’s does quite a bit of location work we request that all passports be done by appointment only, 813-968-2810.