1. A method for detecting a face in a mid-shot digital image of a person, the method comprising: (a) capturing first and second mid-shot digital images of nominally the same scene using different capture settings such that the foreground is differently differentiated from the background in each image, (b) comparing the first and second images to determine the foreground region of the images, and (c) identifying a portion of the foreground region likely to correspond to a face based upon the geometry of the foreground region.