I'm with you on the vocabulary. I had to explain to my 17-year-old what it means to have "a chip on your shoulder" the other day. My kids have been reading too many YA novels and not enough adult literature.
Realtors in my town take horrible pictures of even perfectly nice houses. When I had a house for sale, I took pictures myself because the ones in the ads were so awful. But neither realtor would bother to lift one more finger than they had to for a commission under ten grand, so they never got replaced. And checking through the other ads in town, I found that none of the local realtors cared about photo quality.
I well recall using one when my grandma's house got electricity. My young uncles were proud of the little contraption they came up with that would toast bread. It would be an antique now, but they probably tore it up in no time.
So you're trying to tell us these are photographs? Okay. I went to the link, and they still look like illustrations to me, except there's one closeup where you can see the guy's eyelashes. The "behind the scenes" page seems to be borked. Honestly, I'd like to see the guy's body without paint...