These are NOT photographs, but drawings - vector art to be precise, created entirely using Adobe Illustrator. Vector graphics uses meshes consisting of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygon, which are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics. Vector illustrations are extraordinarily slow, painstaking work and to achieve such photorealism through vectors is just mind blowing!
Wayne Forrest

Halim Ghodbane
Henke Svensson

Koji Masui




Takashi Morisaki




Ussa Methawittayakul

Yukio Miyamoto








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Shopped.
Illustratored
Here you can find Photo-realistic Vector Drawings – http://vector.artsstock.com/page/search/tags/photo-realistic
Urm, these are all JPGs or GIFs, neither of which is a vector graphic format.
the JPG format is used to render in a page web... do you really expect that the original AI/SVG file available here for download ???
You do get idiots like that Anonymous :) lol
Truly amazing! Check out this article
http://www.infobarrel.com/Understanding_how_vector_creates_photo_realistic_effects
I think these are fake. Just sayin'