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I recently watched a Youtube video of someone who claimed that Instagram is dying. To be honest I do agree. Instagram is pushing these video’s like crazy and I am almost unable to see the posts of the people I follow. Beside that Instagram’s algorithm seems to hold photo’s in […]

New social media channel – Vero

19 Aug, 2022 in MHI news by Marco Hofman

They call it the ugliest bridge of the Netherlands. Somehow I disagree. Together with model Viviane I did a photoshoot at this bridge and its surroundings. When I look at our results I think this bridge can be a very cool photoshoot location. You can see more about Viviane at […]

The ugliest bridge with Viviane

13 Aug, 2022 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Natural light 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

I have been in a lovely nature reserve for an outdoor photoshoot. This nature reserve is called ‘De Blaauwe Kamer’ which is freely translated ‘The Blue Chamber’. The theme for this photoshoot was fantasy/fineart. For this shoot I worked together with Elisa. She is a great model for these kind […]

Fantasy in the Blue Chamber with Elisa

30 Jul, 2022 in Editorial portraits tagged Fantasy / Female portrait / Fineart / Natural light / Outdoors flash by Marco Hofman

This photoshoot was very special to me because it was a shoot with a very special person. Arjan is my old friend from back at primary school. So we know each other for a very long time. It was an honour to photograph Arjan and I really like the outcome […]

Moody shoot with Arjan

16 Jul, 2022 in Editorial portraits tagged Male portrait / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

In one my previous news messages I wrote that the heat is back on again with my photoshoots. This surely goes for the shoot I write about now. During covid Berlinda and I already had some online conversations together and did preparations for this shoot. So the idea for this […]

Film noir shoot with Berlinda

9 Jul, 2022 in Editorial portraits tagged Female portrait / Smoke / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

I had a collaboration with a new model. I love working with new people because it is refreshing and sparks creativity. This time I did a photoshoot with Viviane. She can be a tough model but is also very capable of doing soft and female modeling. You can find more […]

Gridded playtime with Viviane

2 Jul, 2022 in Editorial portraits tagged Color gels / Female portrait / Smoke / Studio flash by Marco Hofman

Wow. It has been a pretty while since I wrote something here. When Covid found its way across the world I decided to lay low for a while to keep my family, models and myself safe. After that I had to work on some home improvements which made that most […]

Finally back in action

25 Jun, 2022 in MHI news by Marco Hofman

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