I'm not in product photography, but the work of Eberhard Schuy is really inspiring. He wrote some books about how he works, concealing nothing or at most a little bit of his tricks.
I really like the tack sharp focus that Ansel Adams brought to the scenes he captured.[1] I later learned that he revisited the same places over and over in search of just the right mood, etc. I used to do the same thing when I worked in Chicago. Myself, I'm into landscapes, time-lapses, and virtual-focus/synthetic aperture photography, though it's been quite a long time since I was able to venture forth and take pho…
True, Ansel Adams really was a master of his craft. I have to study his work more, he has some amazing photographs! The black and white really does something for the picture, I always thought that the contrast it is able to bring out without being too much is very pleasable to the eye. I took a look at your photos - a lot of them are good! The ones with the same person multiple times in the frame kinda threw me for a…
Stand in one place, take several pictures as the person walks/rides across, then use Hugin[1] to align the images, outputting each as a TIF. Then import those as layers, and use masking to compose them into the final image with GIMP[2].
If you're more prepared, you could just use a tripod to skip the need for alignment.
I used to follow Van Wong[1] because he is an engineer turned artist. But haven't seen much from him in last few years. And I follow various tags related to photography, lately underwater photography has my interest.