Among a long list of famous and successful photographers who use untold amounts of post processing to set their work apart, this guy just takes plain old photographs... and his work is miles ahead of a lot of the people you'd know (Dave Hill?).

Check out his website here: brent humphreys: photographer

Also, if you subscribe to Wired magazine, he did this month's cover and the wired blog has his setup diagrammed on airline napkins.