I 100% agree. Two of the things I lamented the most when I first got into dogs was the lack of rock-solid line breedings on some phenomenal dogs, AND the fact that very few people took decent pictures of their dogs, IF they took any at all. Both are a travesty to history.
Unfortunately, in my opinion, pictures of good dogs have only gotten worse, instead of better, with time.
There is a onslaught of incredibly terrible pedigree pictures all over peds-online, and not in just the angle or quality of pictures, but hardly anyone takes their dogs off of the chain to get a decent picture these days, so you end up with a ton of dogs on questionable set ups with dirty water in a chewed up plastic bucket and a makeshift house in the background. Exceptions to that image are few and far between 