In order to create a professional looking comp card, you need high resolution pictures to give to your comp card printer. This doesn't mean, however, that you need an uber-expensive camera to take these pictures.
Print jobs typically call for a 300 dpi resolution - 300 dots per inch. Take the size of your image (8.5" x 5.5" for a full bleed comp card), and multiply each side by 300. That yields ~2500 x ~1700 pixels. In layman's terms, that's equivalent to about 4-5 megapixels.
Most phones today have a resolution that high. Pretty much every camera does, as well.
Certainly, there are other issues that set professional photography apart from your snapshots (especially lighting), but resolution is not one of them. On the other hand, this does preclude you from using a low resolution image that you have on Facebook. That will not look good.
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