The detail I am after

Here are a few example images from a Turkish film director and photographer Nuri Bilge Ceylan. What amazed me about his photography is the amount of detail in the images. I knew already that I want to have my images desaturated and with cold colours, but combined with this contrasty details they woudl be much stronger, I think.Mr Ceylan told me that he uses a similar camera to the Mamiya we have in the university. It's medium format and digital. He often uses a panoramic camera though. His tips were to photograph with as little contrast as possible to gain the control over contrast once post-processing the images in Photoshop. He thinks that digital technologies are a blessing to artistic minds as it gives more opportunities to experiment and is much cheaper. He also said that he is not afraid of absolute dark areas on his photos as it is not important to show everything. With this he can draw attention to areas on the photos that really matter to him.
His website www.nuribilgeceylan.comHis photos are printed out in quite large format. The technique he uses is archival pigment ink on 460grm cotton rag paper. This gives the images a subtle texture and painting-like apparance. Mr Ceylan prints out his images himself.