Do you look silly on your cert. card?

chem · Jun 6, 2009

I suppose everyone would agree that they don't look great on passport photo's, but it seems that our photo's on certification cards are the worst!

After completing our OW, we had photo's shot at the local photography store in Lovina, Bali. We were as red as could be (lot's of sun!), and the pictures were shot with a bourdeaux red background - lot's and lot's of red.

Then I lost my card, and that one looked OK as I made the photo myself.

Last month we went advanced, and had our pictures taken at the dive resort. They're out of focus and we look like we didn't sleep for 3 weeks!

Is your cert. card photo as bad as ours?

Dantheengineer · Jun 6, 2009

chem:
I suppose everyone would agree that they don't look great on passport photo's, but it seems that our photo's on certification cards are the worst!

After completing our OW, we had photo's shot at the local photography store in Lovina, Bali. We were as red as could be (lot's of sun!), and the pictures were shot with a bourdeaux red background - lot's and lot's of red.

Then I lost my card, and that one looked OK as I made the photo myself.

Last month we went advanced, and had our pictures taken at the dive resort. They're out of focus and we look like we didn't sleep for 3 weeks!

Is your cert. card photo as bad as ours?

My own image scares me! I daren't show it to a dive outfit for fear of them not allowing such a disfigured "warpoid" on the boat! i make them look me up my cert number online!!! :shakehead:

tstormdiver · Jun 6, 2009

You ought to see my Adv. Nitrox card. The photo was taken immediately after the 2nd dive that day, so I was still in my drysuit. With the latex seal, it made my face look 3X's bigger than it is. I also had a bad case of "hood hair" going on at that time too

. How embarrassing. I'm at my worst & the instructor wants a picture. :shakehead:

rsldonk · Jun 6, 2009

IF you look like your c-card picture, you're too sick to dive.

KY_BOB · Jun 6, 2009

Nope. When I finished my OW class, my instructor didn't have his camera and ask me to email him a pic of myself. I go to go through all of the pics on my computer, find my favorite, crop out all but my face, and send it to him.

That's not to say that I look good, I just look like myself.

I do have a dive buddy that is in his late 40's right now. He still has his original PADI cert card from when he was 14 years old. He looks about 12 in the pic. That makes people do a double take when he hands it to someone and they see a pic of a kid on it.

D_B · Jun 6, 2009

Some are OK, some are not
You can do what I do .. just get more training and another card

:laughing:
..... for my last one I took the pic myself and I look marvelous

Garrobo · Jun 6, 2009

It's called VANITY.

MaxBottomtime · Jun 6, 2009

Mine are all bad. I rarely wear a baseball cap unless I'm playing baseball, but for my DM card I wore a DM hat. My Nitrox card has scan lines through it. I have two OW cards. My NAUI card doesn't include a picture, but my PADI card has the last shot of me with long hair. I found that my hood tugged on my ponytail too much, so I've kept my hair fairly short since I became certified.

DESIGNERDIVER · Jun 6, 2009

it's AWFUL!!! right after the certification dives...........wet hair piled on my head UGH!!

chem · Jun 6, 2009

So who's brave enough to scan their card and show us the horror?

Do you look silly on your cert. card?

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