Yearly Archives: 2020

Let’s talk about me for once. Well, since it’s still COVID time and I’m not shooting that much it might be a good time to do something different and give you some background insights about all of this photography work I’m doing. So let’s talk a bit about me. A […]

My photography style

19 Sep, 2020 in MHI news by Marco Hofman

I had a great urban shoot with Priscilla around the bridge between Zwijndrecht and Dordrecht. We did some walking around and created great images. We also visited the skate park for some cool urban shots. Priscilla told me she used to go skating as the skate park in the past. […]

The bridge and skate park with Priscilla

12 Sep, 2020 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Natural light by Marco Hofman

As you already might have read in some previous news messages I’m still shooting on location only during the COVID situation. Most of the time that means shooting outdoors. I love being outdoors by the way. Also for shooting. However some photographers love the harsh sunlight, I still can not […]

Nature shoot with Jack

29 Aug, 2020 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Natural light by Marco Hofman

I had a photoshoot with model Kirsten at a great location. It was at an old glue factory which had a lot of shooting possibilities. Actually one shoot is not enough to explore all great backgrounds which this location offers. This was my first collaboration with model Kirsten and we […]

At the old glue factory with Kirsten

22 Aug, 2020 in Editorial portraits tagged Flash / Location flash / Natural light / Small flash by Marco Hofman

I went to Bergen op Zoom with model Jessie to do an outdoor photo shoot. Jessie was also a model with whom I had planned to do a photoshoot in the studio before de COVID-outbreak. With a big disappointment I had to cancel this studio shoot with Jessie too. But […]

Urban shoot with Jessie

15 Aug, 2020 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Natural light by Marco Hofman

A few weeks ago I carefully started shooting again. My studio space is too small to keep a safe distance between the the model and myself. So to keep both of us safe I decided to shoot on location as long as this COVID-19 thing is tormenting us. But don’t […]

Social distancing lens

8 Aug, 2020 in Gear talk tagged Product / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

After a long period of photographic isolation it finally happend. In the Netherlands it seems to get a bit safer outside. So I started to do photoshoots again in these strange and insecure COVID-19 times. I started the photoshoots with Priscilla because she was the first one with whom I […]

Under the bridge with Priscilla

1 Aug, 2020 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Flash / Location flash / Outdoors flash by Marco Hofman

Remember that photoshoot I did with Eveline? The one with the headphones? I decided to take one image of that shoot up to the next level. I picked one of the images and create a digital art version of it with musical notes in the background. To emphasise the musical […]

Digital art music portrait of Eveline

6 Jun, 2020 in Fineart portraits tagged Female portrait / Photoshop / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

I had a great fineart shoot with model Paula. You can find more about Paula’s work at her Instagram feed @habibtypaula8. The basic concept was (fake) fur clothing in a classy style. We created a moody lighting setup and started shooting. Paula had a great classic camera which we added […]

Furry fineart shoot with Paula

23 May, 2020 in Fineart portraits tagged Female portrait / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

Note that this shoot is from before the quarantine situation. It was time to take my photography a step further. For quite a while now I wanted to do some more fineart photography. So I asked model Brigitte if she would like to do a fineart photoshoot with me. And […]

Fineart portraits with Brigitte

9 May, 2020 in Fineart portraits tagged Female portrait / Photoshop / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

Sometimes strange and unforeseen things happen in life. This time something completely unexpected. My wife blew up our network router. That’s right. Boom. That’s quite an achievement huh? It was not completely her fault though. She switched on the lights and a lightbulb broke down and caused a power shortage […]

Fresh router

6 May, 2020 in Product tagged Studio flash by Marco Hofman

Since I still don’t do photoshoots with models during this quarantaine phase I decided to use another model. Me, myself and I. Why not putting myself through the same paces as models do during the shoots? Of course these models are way better than me. But this was still fun. […]

Quarantine madness

2 May, 2020 in Editorial portraits tagged Self-portrait / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

Time for another creativity shoot at home. A few years ago I bought a lens ball. I had some great plans with this ball. Plans which until now are not executed. But it still is a cool plan and when the social distancing phase is over, I will start executing […]

The ball still lifes

25 Apr, 2020 in Still life tagged Home creativity shoot / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

I have been in contact with Iris for a longer period of time. We would like to do a photoshoot together but the distance between us was a bit of an issue. But finally we made an appointment. I travelled by train to her town and we did a shoot […]

Outdoor shoot with Iris

4 Apr, 2020 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Natural light by Marco Hofman

I will only write the Corona word once. The world is flooded with information and disinformation about it. Since I am stuck at home like a lot of people around the world during this terrible situation I decided to keep on creating images. However for the safety of the models […]

Blog – Black on black product shoot

1 Apr, 2020 in Product tagged Home creativity shoot / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

A while ago I did a portrait shoot in the studio. When I have a portrait session with people I always try to find out what they are into in their daily lives. The photoshoot this time was with model Eveline. Beside her son she is very passionate about music. She […]

Musical portraits with Eveline

28 Mar, 2020 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

Time for a different kind of studio shoot. I had a creative photoshoot with model Paula. You can find more about Paula’s work at her Instagram feed @habibtypaula8. The basic concept of the shoot was easy: newspaper. So we decided to create a wall of news paper pages. But what […]

Newspaper time with Paula

21 Mar, 2020 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

Sometimes things do not go as planned or as you wished for. This was exactly the case with my outdoor shoot with Kim. The weather forecast predicted a greyish and cloudy day. Possibly even some rain. Which of course we hoped would pass by our location. At the morning of […]

Outdoor shoot with Kim

14 Mar, 2020 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Natural light by Marco Hofman

Last year my mother in law passed away. Despite all stories of other people about terrible mothers in law that was not the case for me. In the contrary. She was a great and lovely person and we miss her a lot. Since she lived alone we had to empty […]

Fineart wallflowers

11 Mar, 2020 in Still life tagged Fineart / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

I had a moody style photoshoot with Brigitte in the studio. Brigitte is a very versatile and fantastic model. You can find more about Brigitte’s work at: Facebook: Brigitte Schultink Instagram: @brigittetweet We decided to do some fluffy and furry images to begin with. At the end we did some […]

Moody studio shoot with Brigitte

7 Mar, 2020 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Studio fl by Marco Hofman

Remember teenage model Fariël? I recently did some cool studio shoots with her. You can find more information about that at news pages Silhouette shoot with Fariël and Moody portraits with Fariël. I also did a short outdoor shoot with Fariël. Just one camera-lens combination and Fariël used just one […]

Outdoor shoot with Fariël

22 Feb, 2020 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Natural light by Marco Hofman

A while ago I wrote a news post about Roosmarijn: Moody studio shoot with Roosmarijn. In that post I told you that there might be something more from Roosmarijn. And indeed there is something more from her and I will write about that in this news post. Sometimes things lead […]

Silhouette shoot with Roosmarijn

15 Feb, 2020 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

Since I have been fulfilling some of my photoshoot dreams lately it might be a good idea to continue that trend. This shoot is also one that I had in my mind for a longer period of time. And now I have finally realised it. I had a shoot in […]

Rock Girl shoot with Suzanne

25 Jan, 2020 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Smoke / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

I had a lovely studio shoot with model Fariël. We did one of my favourite shoots: the moody light shoot. She brought some great outfits and soft fabrics with her which matched perfectly to the style I had in mind. We started shooting and got a lot of cool images […]

Moody portraits with Fariël

18 Jan, 2020 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

I have rented a camera for a long weekend to do some new gear testing. For those who are interested: I rented a Nikon Z7 with FTZ Adapter to see how it would perform with my Nikon F-mount glass. For this shoot Paula volunteered to help me out as a […]

City of Rotterdam shoot with Paula

4 Jan, 2020 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Natural light by Marco Hofman

We have made it to another year. It is 2020. And therefore I wish you all a happy new year. I hope that this year will bring you nothing but goodness and health. Since I got the feeling that time travels fast, I find this image of Bianca very applicable […]

Happy New Year

1 Jan, 2020 in Fineart portraits / MHI news tagged Female portrait / Studio flash by Marco Hofman