My New ELLE Magazine Fashion Spread

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Dave_W

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Benjamin Kanarek said:
Indeed Rick..You are so right. I merit not to be in the midst of one of your stature. I grovel in your presence and am dwarfed my the magnitude of your immense intellect. Oh forgive me, as I have sinned. I will now return to my hovel.
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I'm confused....what is it in Rick's post that has caused you to act so childish?
 
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WhiteLight

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Benjamin Kanarek said:
Indeed Rick..You are so right. I merit not to be in the midst of one of your stature. I grovel in your presence and am dwarfed my the magnitude of your immense intellect. Oh forgive me, as I have sinned. I will now return to my hovel.
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And i can feel like a few tonnes of sarcasm hidden in plain sight there.
This last post really makes me wonder if someone who really is a pro would have so much of humor in them..
In case anyone didn't get that last statement, it was mildly laced with some of the sarcasm that rubbed off from the post above.

and you do have the patience of a saint to have liked that post @Rick_m
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

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Benjamin Kanarek said:
Indeed Rick..You are so right. I merit not to be in the midst of one of your stature. I grovel in your presence and am dwarfed my the magnitude of your immense intellect. Oh forgive me, as I have sinned. I will now return to my hovel.
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This is about the most childish response I have seen in a while. You rarely even grace us with your presence unless you are self promoting (Bragging) about how great you think you are. If this is what you are all about then you really need to go somewhere else.
 
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Rick M

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WhiteLight said:
And i can feel like a few tonnes of sarcasm hidden in plain sight there.
This last post really makes me wonder if someone who really is a pro would have so much of humor in them..
In case anyone didn't get that last statement, it was mildly laced with some of the sarcasm that rubbed off from the post above.

and you do have the patience of a saint to have liked that post @Rick_m
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It was a very likable post. Benjamin shared his thoughts and I think we all learned a bit more about him.
 
Bob Blaylock

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ShootRaw said:
Ok, so you don't like the expressions..I get it..But this is this guys work and is good enough to go into Elle magazine..What I would give for a spread like that..
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I think this statement tells us much more about Elle magazine itself, than it tells us about the “quality” of a photographer whose works are accepted for inclusion therein.
 
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dmc

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Bob Blaylock said:
It's funny, I was thinking at some point yesterday, of comparing these pictures of Ms. Szoka to some I have of my wife. My wife, I have to admit, is very much not supermodel material. Yet, she easily achieves a very friendly, pleasant, appealing expression on her face, that makes pictures of her in which she shows such an expression far more attractive and appealing than any of the pictures in this shoot of Ms. Szoka. Doing a Google Image search for “Marlena Szoka” reveals that she seems to specialize in exactly the sort of harsh, unappealing facial expressions which completely ruin what would otherwise be a very beautiful face. There are a very few pictures that come up in that search, where she appears more relaxed, that show how beautiful she is capable of being, but most have pretty much the same sort of harsh, ugly, unappealing expressions shown in Mr. Kanarek's pictures. So here's my wife, “a chubby, rose cheeked middle aged woman with a down-home smile”. I think you have to admit that in these pictures,she looks more appealing and inviting than any of the pictures of Ms. Szoka in Mr. Kanarek's shoot, or the vast majority of them to be found elsewhere online; though admittedly, my wife couldn't possibly compete with those very rare pictures in which Ms. Szoka is shown deigning to smile. <img src="http://nikonites.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=60910"/> <img src="http://nikonites.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=60911"/> <img src="http://nikonites.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=60912"/> I'm now reminded of the one time I watched one of Victoria's Secret's annual Christmas Lingerie shows on TV. It featured their usual models, who usually look very appealing, but for some reason, on this show, they all wore the same angry, unpleasant, “Don't you dare look at me, you disgusting sexist pig!” expression, which pretty much ruined the entire effect. If they had deigned to smile, they would have been very beautiful. Well, except one. The best explanation I can come up with for that one was that the producers of this show went to Ethiopia, dug up the rotting corpse of some poor young women who had died in the great famine that happened there about ten or twenty years before, got a witch doctor to animate it as a zombie, dressed it up in lingerie, and paraded it around on the stage with the other models. I much later learned that the name of the grotesque skeletal undead thing that they used in this show is “Alek Wek”, and for some reason, this thing is regarded in some circles as one of the more beautiful supermodels. Not being into necrophilia, I just don't see the appeal there at all. I guess the more I think of it, the more sense my wife's theory makes, that the fashion industry is dominated by homosexual men who have a deep hatred of women; and that this hatred is often clearly visible in much of the photography that comes out of this industry.
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You, sir, obviously are deeply in love with your wife. She is very lucky, indeed, to be married to you. Well done my friend.
 
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dmc

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Don Kuykendall said:
This is about the most childish response I have seen in a while. You rarely even grace us with your presence unless you are self promoting (Bragging) about how great you think you are. If this is what you are all about then you really need to go somewhere else.
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Don, stop being so shy. Tell us what's on your mind, buddy!
 
wud

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Rise above it! All of you..


I just wanna say, I really like the b/w images. Maybe the expression aren't my favorite to look at, but I do think its what Elle/fashion magazine wants. Its kind of the thing in fashion, these days. (Doesnt this make me sound old, lol).

Last week I was looking at a danish photographer, he does fashion too, he made the girls pose in very different ways but something he also did, was to make them look calm and relaxed. I really liked that.

Oh, and I LOVE the grey sweater and the yellow nailpolish! I only got blue, green, black, red, purple and pink nailpolish. Gotta get yellow. The images are working, lol.

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First of all, I question why @Benjamin Kanarek even posted here on Nikonites. I highly doubt he uses a Nikon or any DX/FX camera for these fashion photos. In addition to advertising, self-promotion such as this makes me wonder if he is narcissistic/egotistical, has low self-esteem, or a combination of both because it is so out of place posting this type of thing on a Nikon forum.

Benjamin Kanarek said:
​If anyone is interested, I want to share with you my newest fashion editorial, a Special Louis Vuitton for ELLE Magazine shot with the gorgeous model Marlena Szoka with whom I worked with before for Harper's BAZAAR.

Here is the link to the story and the video:


marlena-szoka-louis-vuitton-night-bash-elle-magazine-benjamin-kanarek | Benjamin Kanarek Blog


Thanks
Ben
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Rick M said:
Had this post been in the Critique thread or presented for specific feedback we would keep it more "on track". This is a post thrown up in the off-topic thread which should be open to pretty much all discussion. There really is no specific "track" here to keep it on. Since it borders on advertisement/self promotion and not a serious query for feedback, it is fine to carry on a conversation over the subject matter.
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Benjamin Kanarek said:
Indeed Rick..You are so right. I merit not to be in the midst of one of your stature. I grovel in your presence and am dwarfed my the magnitude of your immense intellect. Oh forgive me, as I have sinned. I will now return to my hovel.
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What would be really interesting would be to know what Elle, Harper's Bazaar, and their advertisers think about Mr. Kanarek's actions here. Since he mentions having worked for both magazines, does he represent the type of professionalism with which they wish to be associated? That might be interesting to pursue.... ;)
 
Bob Blaylock

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hark said:
First of all, I question why @Benjamin Kanarek even posted here on Nikonites. I highly doubt he uses a Nikon or any DX/FX camera for these fashion photos. In addition to advertising, self-promotion such as this makes me wonder if he is narcissistic/egotistical, has low self-esteem, or a combination of both because it is so out of place posting this type of thing on a Nikon forum.
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Not to speak for either Mr. Kanarek nor for the moderators of this forum; but I just don't see what your gripe is here, or why you think anything needs to be done about it.

What makes you so sure that Mr. Kanarek doesn't use Nikon cameras in his work? Nikon is, after all, a very highly-regarded brand, and has long been very popular among professional photographers. If we can reliably establish that Mr. Kanarek does not use Nikon cameras, then perhaps you'll have some basis on which to question whether he and his works belong here.

Do you post your pictures on this forum? If so, why? Are you any less driven by egotism or narcissism to do so than Mr. Kanarek is?


hark said:
What would be really interesting would be to know what Elle, Harper's Bazaar, and their advertisers think about Mr. Kanarek's actions here. Since he mentions having worked for both magazines, does he represent the type of professionalism with which they wish to be associated? That might be interesting to pursue.... ;)
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This sounds like a threat to mess with Mr. Kanarek's livelihood in real life, based on a disagreement with him on this forum. Not cool. Not cool at all. I don't know for sure about this forum, but I know that on some other forums that I frequent, such threats are considered solid grounds to have you banned from those forums.
 
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