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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAre Driver License cameras designed to capture your picture
at the worst possible pose so you can enjoy that wonderful imagery for a decade?
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,560 posts)SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)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
(42,750 posts)So that means next time I renew my photo will be at least sixteen years old.
kairos12
(12,849 posts)had to go under one of those blankets and I had to hold the flash powder. Still a bad photo.
lpbk2713
(42,750 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)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
(12,849 posts)looks like that mug shot of Nick Nolte. Not good.
Sailor65x1
(554 posts)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
(130,825 posts)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
(40,416 posts)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
(12,849 posts)spooky3
(34,425 posts)I wish I could say I look nothing like it.
Yonnie3
(17,427 posts)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
(51,582 posts)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.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)pissed.
at least in my county
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)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
(15,315 posts)Though you do come to a point where after a while you think maybe it doesn't look so bad after all.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)so I look like some sort of sunken-eyed rat creature.
Normally I look like a rat creature with very normal eyes.
Raine
(30,540 posts)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
(7,411 posts)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
(5,522 posts)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
(53,410 posts)Theyre the least flattering photos on the planet.
sorcrow
(418 posts)Mine is overexposed; it makes me look bald!
Regards,
Crow
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)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
(35,320 posts)Campbell or Randy Travis mug shot photo. Go with your shirt buttoned uneven, have a couple days beard and hair messed up.