Are Driver License cameras designed to capture your picture

[kairos12]

at the worst possible pose so you can enjoy that wonderful imagery for a decade?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Sure looks that way, doesn't it? Mine does. I hardly resemble it!

[SonofDonald]

2. Yes, especially at my age n/t

[The Genealogist]

3. The one my better half had when I met him was a hoot!

The person taking pictures got him all ticked off then took the picture. The photo looked like he was on the verge of committing murder.

[lpbk2713]

4. Last time I renewed I did it on line.

So that means next time I renew my photo will be at least sixteen years old.

[kairos12]

5. My last picture session before this the photographer

had to go under one of those blankets and I had to hold the flash powder. Still a bad photo.

[lpbk2713]

14. I'll bet he had a handlebar mustache too.

[Moostache]

6. I have taken INTENTIONALLY bad pictures for kicks in the past!

I figured when I was in my 20's that if I ever got pulled over and my license looked like I had just rolled out of bed hung over and inhuman shades of green that anyone viewing my license would be struck by how much better I looked in real life!

Now that those days are so distant in the rear-view mirror it probably wasn't such a great plan after all...

[kairos12]

7. That is a good plan. I never thought of that. Now any picture taken of me

looks like that mug shot of Nick Nolte. Not good.

[Sailor65x1]

8. Yes they are

It's in the specifications to the manufacturer. It helps us ugly people feel better so suck it up and take one for the team

[elleng]

9. Something like that!

Must say my daughter's some years ago was FABULOUS! Since then she's divorced and changed her name back, so prolly has a different one.

[longship]

10. It's worse. They capture your immortal soul.

What they want with it, who knows. But they keep them all in the sub-basement of the state capital building in a room with a sign on the door. "Abandon all hope... etc."

[kairos12]

11. I Dante think so!

[spooky3]

12. Mine isn't nearly as bad as my passport photo.

I wish I could say I look nothing like it.

[Yonnie3]

13. You reminded me

I've got to go in and get a DL this month. They insist that I do it in person. Vision test and photo required. All for the paltry sum of $32 and from 2 to 4 hours.

I don't even know where the office is. They moved.

Passport Photo: long haired, disheveled, unshaven, dark circles and bags under eyes. My concern is now that I'm rested with beard and hair trimmed anyone comparing me to the passport will be certain I am up to no good.

[BigmanPigman]

15. I read that you can have your picture taken as many times as you

want, you just have to pay an additional fee for each one. This is a new bill introduced in CA about a month ago.

http://www.kron4.com/news/california-bill-would-let-you-choose-your-drivers-license-photo/1012977608
If you don't like your driver's license picture, you could soon have the option to retake it.
But there will be a fee.
Southern California Sen. Josh Newman just introduced the bill on Friday.
He says the goal is for people to take license pictures they are proud of.
Under the bill, people would have two options to choose a new picture.
You can ask the photographer to retake it for a fee. Or, you can take your picture away from the DMV if it meets their guidelines.
The money generated from the bill would go towards driver's education programs.
Newman says they are still working on cost but says it won't be expensive.

[Hekate]

16. Yes

[Snotcicles]

17. I'm getting a shirt with a super small collar and a very thin tie so my head looks ginormous. nt

[demtenjeep]

18. its because you have waited 7 fucking hours-by the time you get the picture taken you are more than

pissed.



at least in my county

[Blue_true]

24. My wait hasn't ever been longer than 30 minutes.

Typically there is 10 staffed windows, except at lunchtime when it drops by around half. My longest wait was at lunchtime. Also, the business people have affects waits, people changing out of state registrations normally take the longest, because they get plates, a state title, a driver's liscense, registered to vote if they choose to.

[kcr]

19. Depending on the state and the magic of renewal by mail/internet sometimes it's longer than that

Though you do come to a point where after a while you think maybe it doesn't look so bad after all.

[Codeine]

20. They make me take my glasses off

so I look like some sort of sunken-eyed rat creature.

Normally I look like a rat creature with very normal eyes.

[Raine]

21. I had one several years back that was so good I wished

I could've gotten prints of it to pass out but the ones since then have been hideous. I think they goofed on the good one and decided that was never going to happen again!

[misanthrope]

26. Same here

The one I had that just expired had one of the better photos ever taken of me. I'm sorry to see it go.

[rickford66]

22. Why should anyone care ?

Our DMV always asks if we want to have it taken again. I'm just happy to get out of there and say no. I think the reason the photos look that way is so you can be identified if you're found dead someplace.

[lunatica]

23. They're not as bad as passport pictures

They’re the least flattering photos on the planet.

[sorcrow]

25. Mine is overexposed...

Mine is overexposed; it makes me look bald!

Regards,
Crow

[zipplewrath]

27. Once I wore a tux

I was in a choir and we had tuxes, so I took the shirt, tie, and jacket with me and wore it for the picture. It got alot of laughs when I got ID'ed in the day.

[doc03]

28. I think it would be fun to go as a Nick Nolte, Glenn

Campbell or Randy Travis mug shot photo. Go with your shirt buttoned uneven, have a couple days beard and hair messed up.