The "graphic designer" who does the novel covers has posted on OG about how they don't get their own photos to work with, they have to use the promotional ones they shoot at the beginning of every season and manipulate the fuck out of them.

Which means they probably did this one of the three of them and some gunz on purpose. D:

As for those icons, I freely admit to often deciding not to read a fic based on an icon. If the icon is stretched or weird or blurry or has a baby in it or animates among several completely different photos, I'm out.