Guedin's sketchbook
I'm not sure to understand well but, the basemeshes were actually pretty basic. Sometimes it was just a sphere with dynamesh for the organic stuff, like the fish or the pig leg, other times it was a little bit of hard surface modeling in max then a detail pass in ZBrush About the carpets, it was really easy actually. It's done in max, with spline and soft selection. I did a quick breakdown :
This Chart Shows How Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO Affect Your Photos
Learning even just the basics of photography takes a bit of work and one of the more complex ideas is the relationship between ISO, aperture, and shutter speed. German photography blog Photoblog Hamburg has a graphic explaining how it works.