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 Model Thalita / 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 / Model Thalita / 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 / Model Thalita / 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 / Model Thalita / 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 / Model Thalita / 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 / Model Thalita / 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 / Model Thalita / 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