Business Portraits

Before I start shooting business portraits I allways have a little conversation with the person because it's very important for me to know who this person is and what he or she wants to achieve with the portraits. Do you want to look accessible or more formal, is humor desirable or more serious, et cetera. The result is allways a product of collaboration. Beneath you see some of the results.


Hans Heuvelman is CEO at Building Bridges and owner of Horlogedomein.nl. Hans chose for the portrait with (a strange) light accent on his right eye.
The pattern on the background is made with a strobe with reflector and a garbage can with many holes in front of it as a Gobo. The accent light in his face is made with a snoot.



Shanti Koenen works as a training actor and coach.


Malik de Kok helps companies writing good texts in less time. From problem to solution.


Lydia Coppens works as a communication advisor and HRM coach.

Kayak in Paradiso

Some of you know that I am a big fan of the Dutch symphonic rockband Kayak. The band exists more than 35 years and developed there musical quality more and more. Alltough they had big hits worldwide in the seventies, their music has changed but preserved that typical Kayaksound. Unfortunately, last year on November 23 suddenly drummer Pim Koopman died because of a heart attack. In the year that passed we did not hear much of the band because of this great lost. On November 22 2010 the silence was broken with a great tribute concert in Paradiso Amsterdam. Of course I was there: first as a fan, secondly as photographer.

I made the following pictures with my Canon 5dMKII, often at a high ISO of 2000 or 2500. Even in those regions, the 5D performs very good with little noise. I took the shots with the Canon 50mm 1.4 and Canon 85mm 1.2 at F 2.0.


Joost Vergoossen, Cindy Oudshoorn


Edward Reekers


Hans Eykenaar


Rob Vunderink


Cindy Oudshoorn


Leo Blokhuis



Video: Jacqueline