An image capturing apparatus includes an imaging device, a face region specifying unit that specifies a face region including an image of at least a part of a face in an image obtained by using the imaging device, a face region brightness computing unit that computes a brightness level of the face region, a background region brightness computing unit that computes a brightness level of a background region including at least a part of the image excluding the face region, and an image capturing control unit that determines an image capturing configuration in accordance with the brightness levels of the face region and the background region and performs an image capturing process in accordance with the determined image capturing configuration.