Image-capturing apparatus and method, expression evaluation apparatus, and program

An image-capturing apparatus for capturing an image by using a solid-state image-capturing device, the image-capturing apparatus comprising:

• a face detector configured to detect a face of a human being on the basis of an image signal in a period until an image signal obtained by image capturing is recorded on a recording medium;
• an expression evaluation section configured to evaluate the expression of the detected face and to compute an expression evaluation value indicating the degree to which the detected face is close to a specific expression in relation to expressions other than the specific expression;
• and
• a notification section configured to notify notification information corresponding to the computed expression evaluation value to an image-captured person,
• wherein the notification section notifies, as the notification information, information that visually indicates the magnitude of the expression evaluation value to an image-captured person side.