So I have been watching the picture section of Nexus for a while now. Lots of nice pictures posted every day which makes me thinking..

What mods do people use for taking those?

The most obvious ones would be various "puppeteer" mods for the poses, but I get a feeling that people use other mods as well for lightning and effect? Or are they pure works from Photoshop and the likes of it?

Are there any good "camera" mods out there? Just using the console and typing "tfc 1" does not feel like many of the pics shown there? Or is it?

Those people generally use a very large amount of aesthetic lighting mods. There are many out there, you can search 'lighting' on the nexus to find many of them. The biggest one is probably ENB. Some mods apply such a huge amount of postprocessing that the game starts to look a bit more like battlefield 3 (in terms of PP) than TES.

Yeah, that much I figured. I use the RealVision ENB myself and it totally changes the game. Vanilla Skyrim feels so... colorless.

But it seem they can get angels I cannot fetch with the camera.

I just learned from the chat on Nexus that you don't need to type "tfc 1" to get the camera. tfc 1 pauses the game, typing just "tfc" will just enable the camera so I could probably get more "living" pictures by just using a free flying camera. I'll try that when I get home!

I believe there are also mods that change perspective, as well as adding depth of field and other such things. Look up 'screenshot' or 'camera' on the Nexus, I don't know any by name but I know for sure that there are a few mods made just for taking pictures.

Also, the flycam is a bit easier to control with a controller. For example, if you were ever to film video or make a trailer, using a controller lets you get far smoother and more restrained movement than mouse and keyboard can. (though this mostly applies to video, since you don't need smooth control for a picture)