Yearly Archives: 2018

Recently I did a another studio shoot with smoke. This time with model Esmée. She had seen my smokey images with Thalita I did earlier this year. You can find more information on that shoot here: Smoke in the studio with Thalita. During the setup of the light we did some […]

Smokey shoot with Esmée

29 Dec, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Color gels / Female portrait / Flash / Smoke / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

At the end of the year it is time for a moment of reflection. Just take a moment for myself and look back at the work that I created this year. And while I was overlooking my work of 2018, I made a selection of images which I liked the […]

My top 10 images of 2018

27 Dec, 2018 in MHI news tagged Top 10 by Marco Hofman

Today it’s December 24th. And that means that it is almost Christmas time. And for that reason I want to take this opportunity to wish you and your loved ones a lovely christmas time and a great Sylvester party. And beside these holiday wishes to all of you, I want […]

Merry Christmas

24 Dec, 2018 in MHI news tagged Christmas lights / Still life / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

I had a very cool shoot with Michelle. I know her for a while now and have only seen her in western style clothing. So when we decided to do a shoot together I asked her about her roots. Well … Indonesian. And based on that fact we decided that […]

Indonesian style with Michelle

22 Dec, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Flash / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

Christmas time is here again. This time I had quite a different shoot then my usual shoots with studio strobes. This time we used more lights. A lot more of them. But they were way smaller then my usually used studio strobes. I had this shoot with Kim and her […]

Christmas time with Kim

15 Dec, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Christmas lights / Female portrait by Marco Hofman

It has been a while so it’s time for a moody shoot again. I love this type of images. This time I did that shoot with Marissa. And since the winter has arrived, we decided to make some images around that theme with fluffy warm clothing as well. She brought […]

Moody shoot with Marissa

8 Dec, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Flash / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

It’s that time of the year again: December. Time for some nice enjoyment with our loved ones. and maybe time for some nice after dinner liquors. Since I recently received a spot attachment for my studio strobes, this new goodie of course needed to be tested. So in extension to […]

Liquor bottles

1 Dec, 2018 in Product tagged Flash / Product / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

As promised in a previous news message on this website, I have done another studio shoot with smoke. This time with Josan. And this shoot was another collaboration with Saskia from Flitsendbeeld. We added a ‘golden’ color gel to the back light to create a warm atmosphere. Later on we […]

Golden smoke in the studio with Josan

24 Nov, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Color gels / Female portrait / Flash / Smoke / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

Together with Saskia from Flitsendbeeld I did a very cool biker shoot in the studio. We had Santiago in the studio with his biker outfit and accessoires. We went for a moody and grunge look and created some cool images. Santiago is working on a very interesting project with electric motorcycles. […]

Grunge biker shoot with Santiago

17 Nov, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Male portrait / Smoke / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

It has been collaboration time again. Together with Saskia from Flitsendbeeld, I took Theo outside in a forest for a dark and moody shoot. One concept we worked out was to shoot a mad ‘Expandables’ type of character with a gun in a forest at night time. And we added […]

Dark forest shoot with Theo

10 Nov, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Flash / Male portrait / Outdoors flash / Smoke by Marco Hofman

Time goes fast. And small people grow big in that fast pace as well. Remember my news messages about the Maternity shoot with Jenneke and A new life came to earth? Well, that’s already a year ago. And that very little fellow from then is now already capable of walking around. And as of […]

Nutella party for Jens

8 Nov, 2018 in Family portraits tagged Child portrait / Flash / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

As promised in the previous news post of Josan and the silhouette images, I will continue the news about that shoot in this post. You know, the cool shoot in collaboration with Saskia of Flitsendbeeld. This time we went for a complete opposite setup then the dark silhouettes. A lot of […]

Colorful portraits with Josan

3 Nov, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Color gels / Female portrait / Flash / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

The fall is coming closer and closer. Which means the days get shorter and shorter. And as a result it’s getting dark in the evenings pretty. But Thalita and I didn’t let that darkness be an obstacle for us to go outside and shoot. We took a studio strobe with […]

Indut shoot at night with Thalita

27 Oct, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Flash / Outdoors flash by Marco Hofman

Let’s start talking about pushing boundaries. This shoot in cooperation with Saskia of Flitsendbeeld.nl has been a boundary pusher with a capital B. This time we decided to take the shoot out of the safe environment of the studio and decided to work in a chapel. That’s cool right? And […]

Chapel cape shoot with Sharon

20 Oct, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Flash / Smoke / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

A year or so ago I met a beautiful dark skinned lady with fantastic high bun of hair on her head. I started thinking about how I would photograph her. And the first thing that struck my mind was a graphical outline of her beautiful facial features and then with […]

Silhouettes with Josan

13 Oct, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Flash / Silhouette portrait / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

A while ago I got myself a smoke machine to use as an extra effect during photoshoots. And Thalita got herself a red dress. So why not combine both new goodies and have a cool shoot with them? In the first part of the shoot we matched the color of […]

Smoke in the studio with Thalita

6 Oct, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Color gels / Female portrait / Smoke / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

Sometimes in life you are surprised by little things that mean a great deal you you. At least I am. I recently got a great little present. A mini painting which was created just for me. Signed and all by the painter. I love it. Not just the painting itself […]

A cool surprise

29 Sep, 2018 in Still life tagged Still life / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

This time I have a completely different shoot to show you. My main subject of photography is portraits of people. And of course, that will remain that way. However, I sometimes also enjoy to do still life and product shoots in the studio. The main reason for that is the […]

Metallic still lives

22 Sep, 2018 in Still life tagged Still life / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

As promised in my news post Nature shoot with Thalita, I have been to the nature reserve with Thalita accompanied by a battery powered studio strobe. We tried to involve more of the natural environment during this shoot by shooting partly in wide angle perspective. This was a kind of a […]

Flash shoot in nature with Thalita

15 Sep, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Flash / Outdoors flash by Marco Hofman

I have a project in mind for the future. Building a kind of series of portraits in a coherent style. This project has something to do with character. In order to do a try-out shoot for this project I asked Hans if he was willing to help me out to […]

Pilot shoot with Hans

8 Sep, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Flash / Male portrait / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

I recently did another shoot outside during the blazing summer. This time I had a shoot with Ruby. We actually had another plan for that day but due to some setbacks that plan didn’t work out. You know Murphy’s Law right? Well … here mr. Murphy came. Full on. So […]

Shoot in Willemstad with Ruby

1 Sep, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Flash / Natural light by Marco Hofman

For a while I had the idea of creating some images of our studio assistants. For those who don’t know: our studio assistants are our Birman cats Chico and Ozzy. Their breed is also called ‘Sacred cat of Birma’. But they don’t behave that ‘holy’ in our opinion. But they […]

Furry portraits

25 Aug, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Cat portrait / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

After a kind of a long summer stop in which we had a long period of hot days over here in the Netherlands, I couldn’t wait any longer and decided that I wanted to start shooting again. But I wanted to shoot in a completely different setting this time. I […]

Nature shoot with Thalita

18 Aug, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Natural light by Marco Hofman

This year I met fellow photographer Saskia during a photography masterclass. We got along very well and decided to do some photo projects together. You might have seen Saskia in my other news post Photographing the photographer Saskia that I posted a few weeks ago. One of the first projects we worked […]

Thalita’s pink flower’s

21 Apr, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

A few weeks ago I did a shoot with Jade. Check out the blog of that shoot at: Tough girl Jade. During that shoot, Jade was accompanied by her mother Leonie. And after Leonie had seen the results of the shoot, and probably had seen the way I work during a […]

Leonie and daughter Jade

14 Apr, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Duo portrait / Female portrait / Silhouette portrait / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

It is always a bit exiting to take pictures from another photographer. Will your work be up to his or her standards? Or not? Well, this time I had this challenge when photographer Saskia asked me to take her profile picture. Because the color style of her company is pink, of course […]

Photographing the photographer Saskia

7 Apr, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Flash / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

RecentlyI have received some new light modifiers for my studio flashes. The most important modifier for me was the beauty dish. So I asked Thalita to help me to test them out. And so we did. I have got a beauty dish with silver inlay. There are white and silver […]

Testing the beauty dish with Thalita

31 Mar, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

Last week I met up with curvy model Jessy. We had a great photo shoot. Jessy is very professional and a fantastic person to work with. She knows a lot about modelling and she is able to switch poses after every click I made. I am very impressed with her […]

Nice shoot with Jessy

24 Mar, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

I have had a very nice studio shoot with Dave. He is a young male model who wants some images to add to his portfolio. Dave is a guy who is very passionate about his modeling career. Beside that he has a great personality and very easygoing. We did do several […]

Portfolio shoot with Dave

17 Mar, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Male portrait / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

This week I had a very nice shoot with Jade. She is a tough girl who asked me to portray that character trait of her. And so we did. Of course. But beside the toughness Jade asked me something else. She has a scar on her shoulder which has been […]

Tough girl Jade

11 Mar, 2018 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Studio flash by Marco Hofman