Fineart portraits

Remember Jenneke from this year’s valentines shoot? Check that out here: Valentine’s shoot with Jenneke. Check out Jenneke at her social media channels: Instagram: @Jenneke11 and @portfoliojenneke11 Facebook: Jenneke Elf This location shoot was one with a few hiccups. First two balloons magically managed to escape from our car and […]

Donut and balloon shoot with Jenneke

11 Mar, 2023 in Editorial portraits / Fineart portraits / Geen categorie tagged Female portrait / Location flash by Marco Hofman

I met up with Berlinda again. This time we did the shoot on location instead of the studio. Our theme was a marionette in which Berlinda performed a perfect role as a marionette. You can find more about Berlinda here: Facebook: Berlinda Scherphof-Bloem Instagram: @berlindascherphofbloem Check her out. She is […]

Marionette shoot with Berlinda

25 Feb, 2023 in Fineart portraits tagged Female portrait / Location flash by Marco Hofman

I did another studio shoot with model Vivane. The main goal of the shoot was shooting in monochrome aka creating black and white images. Check out Viviane at her social media channels: Facebook: Miss Blanket Instagram: miss_blanket81 We diverted from the original plan pretty soon and ended up in a […]

Monochrome experiments with Viviane

18 Feb, 2023 in Editorial portraits / Fineart portraits tagged Female portrait / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

Do you remember miss Cindel I wrote about last time? You can read more about it here: Cinderella shoot with Cindel. I did some more shooting with Cindel. We also went for a fine-art theme. And during that shoot Cindel did a pose with a prop which made me immediately […]

Magical fine-art shoot with Cindel

21 Jan, 2023 in Fineart portraits tagged Female portrait / Flash / Smoke / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

Amy is a cool teenage girl who loves to do modelling as well. She also loves theater performance. She even attends a theatre school. That might be interesting for my fine-art work. So we met up to do a very nice collaboration. Since Amy is also good in acting we […]

Fine-art shoot with Amy

7 Jan, 2023 in Fineart portraits tagged Female portrait / Flash / Outdoors flash by Marco Hofman

What I never could have imagined did happen for real: I met my favourite action hero. Miss Superwomen. What about that? Those are great times to be a photographer. Model Berlinda got into the skin of Superwoman. We did an amazing shoot around that theme. Check out Berlinda at her […]

Superwoman’s day off with Berlinda

24 Dec, 2022 in Fineart portraits tagged Female portrait / Fineart / Flash / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

I met up with a model who lives in the area nearby me. Her name Esther and she does some great modelling work. You can find more about Esther at: Facebook: Esther Korving Instagram: Esthers_photoshoots We did a moody fine-art studio shoot together. Esther brought some great outfits which matched […]

Fine-art shoot with Esther

26 Nov, 2022 in Fineart portraits tagged Female portrait / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

To be honest this shoot was not planned initially. It was just a little extra. This was a shoot with Berlinda. And as you might have seen in my previous news posts, shoots with Berlinda always result in amazing images. You can find more about Berlinda at: Facebook: Berlinda Scherphof-Bloem […]

The lady with the apple – Fine-art shoot with Berlinda

12 Nov, 2022 in Fineart portraits tagged Female portrait / Fineart / Flash / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

I created some other work with model Cidaq too. The first shoot with Cidaq turned out great. Check it out at this news post: Autumn fantasy shoot with Cidaq. This time we did a similar theme with autumn. But now we worked in a studio setting. You can find more […]

Fine-art autumn shoot with Cidaq

5 Nov, 2022 in Fineart portraits tagged fem / Fineart / Flash / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

Finally I did some outdoor shooting again. It has been a while since I am mostly occupied with studio photography. So recently I met up with a very cool model called Cidaq. She is a great model which fitted this theme perfectly. Beside being a good model she also is […]

Autumn fantasy shoot with Cidaq

15 Oct, 2022 in Fineart portraits tagged Fantasy / Female portrait / Fineart / Location flash / Natural light by Marco Hofman

When everything seems to fall apart, beautiful things can come totally unexpected. Let me tell you about that. A few days before this shoot I did not see this one coming. I had studio shoots planned for two days and both models were unlucky enough to be the victim of […]

Fine-art shoot with Teddi

1 Oct, 2022 in Fineart portraits tagged Flash / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

Well here you go. I am gone write to you about one of the coolest shoots I have done in my photography career. I am feeling so lucky that I have met Berlinda. We have great and very creative collaborations. This time we did a poison mixing shoot together. We […]

Madame the poisoner with Berlinda

20 Aug, 2022 in Fineart portraits tagged Female portrait / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

Last weekend I had a great portrait shoot in the studio with Jessie. We did a theme around roses. The goal was to match the color of the roses to Jessie’s hair color. So Jessie brought roses with a color as close as possible to her hair color. The rest […]

Fine-art roses shoot with Jessie

6 Aug, 2022 in Fineart portraits tagged Fineart / Studio 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

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

I sometimes collaborate with fellow photographer Saskia in order to get out of our comfort zones and do creative photo shoots in a way that we normally don’t do. You can find more about Saskia’s work at her website flitsendbeeld.nl. This time we came up with something new again: a […]

Fine art challenge with Daisy

21 Sep, 2019 in Fineart portraits tagged Female portrait / Photoshop / Studio flash by Marco Hofman