Busines portrait mr. Lenssen of Smartgroup (Vught, Netherlands)

It has been some time that I posted some of my photography work. I hope to keep it up for the coming shoots, and I add some results of previous shoots.
On the 30th of December I photographed mr. Lenssen of Smartgroup, the director of this company. Initially he wanted to have two photos: one for his social network pages like LindedIn, and one for general usaged on websites or publications, but when I presented the results of the shoot he wanted to have six.

Here some of the results.

 Mr. Lenssen with some of his artistic creations on the table.

 Casual, comfortable...

 Business....

Artistic background...


How it's done...
I relied mostly on my 50mm/F1.8 on my FF camera to get some of the background in the frame: THE most important added element of a business/environmental portrait. Because of its relative wide field of view I used some large apertures like F2.8 to F4 instead of the safe setting of F8 for longer focal lengths. Now I could blur the background slightly but not too much, so it is still well recognizable. A longer focal length like 70 to 200mm would isolate the head too much from the background, at least to my taste. The view is then both too narrow and too blurry.
Note the foreground-subject-background stack in the pictures, giving it a good sense of depth. One of the most important composition rules.
But don't forget rule number 1: the subject must be razor sharp.