Virtually he does beautiful work with incredible lighting to create this hyper-real, utterly stylized, painterly look. Dave Hill’s technique is currently incredibly popular, but it can be hardly reproduced by some Photoshop action or plugin. Most of the pictures made by this creative photographer involve intricate lighting setups that enhance the highlights and create rich shadows. There is a painstaking attention lent to the lighting during the shoot, plus he uses some post production to create this high-pass, cartoonish, and gritty feel photo effect. Photoshop, in this case, helps in adjusting, working with contrast, applying some color curves to eventually get somewhat more of a plastic looking HDR photo with extreme contrast and depth.