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Content
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| Quality : |
17.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
14.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.0 / 15 |
| Updates : |
9.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
61.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
7.5 / 10 |
| Features : |
3.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
13.5 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
3.0 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
6.5 / 10 |
Scoring Criteria New
New Update!
As of Aug 15th, 07, price of a site is no longer factored into the overall score/rank. |
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1. Nice quality images.
2. Large archive & variety of content.
3. Flash video looks good.
1. Site design could be improved.
2. Quality could still be better.
"Glamour photography with a mixture of some hardcore flavor." |
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Earl Miller, I've heard of this guy! And if you haven't, then you haven't been keeping savvy on some of the most high quality photography found in the porn industry, now have you? Earl Miller gets the fine job of taking pictures of some of the most attractive babes on the Internet, hell, I'd even go so far as to say some of the most attractive babes in the world. A statement from Earl Miller himself demonstrates the passion and devotion that has made this man what he is:
Erotic photography at its best truly celebrates the magic of human sexuality. It has always been my passion to find that magic and capture it on film. I hope my images come to life and create a world of sensual delights for you. Welcome to my world.
Smashing isn't it? Earl Miller is quoted as being "Penthouse Magazine's most published photographer" and his site has it all, exclusive content and videos featuring pornstars, amateurs, and more. Seeing his work on other sites, I am excited to finally be reviewing his own, with over 30,000 images and a handful of videos, I'm hoping his glamorous photo's will offset the seeming large introductory price of $29.95. But before you let those numbers scare you into not going any further with this review, I must say that a rebill at $19.95 is a fair one.
The member's area is a little less impressive in design than I had hoped for, one might consider it slightly on the dull side, but it looks to be an effective one just the same. A "pardon our dust" warning at the top of the page lets me know that they are currently working on redesigning the site, but that all of the content is here-- I hope it turns out nice. Weekly features are at the top: girl of the week, centerfold, and shoot of the week, followed by exclusive galleries listed by type (blondes, brunettes, girl-girl, girl-guy, etc.) in alphabetical order by model, or by collection (penthouse, amateur, monthly centerfolds, etc.). Next are the videos categorized into solo, girl-girl, and girl-guy, followed by extra features like live events, feeds, and videos. Fortunately, browsing alphabetically by model not only lets you see a preview picture of the girl, you are also given a complete listing of all of her image sets shot by Earl Miller. Most girls have anywhere from 2-10 sets to choose from, and upward. A lot of the image sets are offered in both 800 and 1024 pixels sizes, though this is a semi-recent change since I notice that maybe a third of them are only offered in the 800 size. I'm glad they're working on making the option for larger images for all of the newer galleries available, being that there's such great quality photography here, it's a little unjust not to have larger picture formats available.
The overall image quality here is very nice, probably one of the best I've seen. The lighting is perfect, settings and positions are creative and erotic, and you'll find a nice mix of both softcore and hardcore photo sets with a ton of perfectly focused close-up print quality pictures. The girls, ahh yes, the girls:); well they're top notch as well, of course! You'll find all the big names here like Briana Banks, Jenna Jameson, Savannah, Tera Patrick, and plenty more, as well as some of my favorite up and comers, Georgia Adair, Ashton Moore, and many others. With the present site design, images are browsed 1 of 2 ways, either in frames with images listed on the left and being displayed on the right, or as a complete set of thumbs which open up to display the full image. I prefer the latter and am somewhat anxious to see what the new site design has in store for the galleries. My favorite thing about this site so far, aside from the great quality images, is the fact that there's a great mix of hardcore and softcore to be found, not a lot of photographer's sites offer a good mixture of the two.
The Penthouse collection of images are slightly different in style than you're going to find on the rest of the site. These are probably some of the most creative image sets that this site has to offer, though some aren't of the same great quality as the rest and the collection goes back as far as 1985, with an erotic set titled "A Personal Maid to Order", purple eye shadow and all. This section of the site is updated weekly. The amateur collection of images is a small one, featuring only 4 photosets at present, and are not the work of Earl Miller himself, but of his "students of photography under his watchful eye"-- some good, more amateurish stuff to be found here.
So far I am about as please with the images as I expected, now to see how well the videos fare. I hope the new site design offers better descriptions, image previews, and download options for them, as of now you simple are given the name of the actress, whether the action is solo, girl-girl, or girl-guy, an option for hi or low (quality/connection speed), and they all play using QuickTime in your browser window. The hi speed videos are only average to below in size, while the lo speed ones are so damn small (150x100) I can't see how it's even worth it. Even though most of the videos simply feature a behind the scenes look at what goes into the photo shoots, it would have been nice to see them in better quality and at least capable of being watched in a larger size. Overall, though, I'm not sure these videos leave you with much to get off to, they're more educational than anything, giving you an idea to what all goes into a professional photo shoot.
Extra features on the site include access to Flirt 4 Free, where you can watch and chat live with some of your favorite pornstars, including Tera Patrick, who will be making her appearance on Jan. 22, as well as Jenna Maxx, the Ken Marcus Collection, Private Channels, Extreme Coeds, and many more. Aside from the lack in quality videos and the awkward pricing structure ($30 to start, recurs at $20/month), I'd say that Earl Miller's got some great content on his hands. But he knows that, as do many others, and that's why you can see his work all over the Internet to the pages of Penthouse magazine, and amateurs are falling over themselves, lining up to have him shoot them. The design of the member's area strikes me as too amateur in style for such a glamorous site and I hope that it's in their plans to give it a face lift with the new site design. Overall, though, it's the content that counts as the heart of the site and browsing your way around here isn't difficult by any means. If you can get over the lump of cash you're going to have to shell out just to join, the monthly cost should put you a little more at ease.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 11-17-04 |
It's been a while since I've been here and it looks as though not a lot has changed when it comes to the design of the site, which is too bad because the member's area here could really use some freshening up. Other than that, glamour photographer, Earl Miller has certainly been busy taking pictures, now with over 35,000+ images on the site. What's even better is that the video section has really been improved on, now with over 80+ videos offered in Windows Media Player or QuickTime in high (512k) or low (122k) formats. I'd still like to see even a slightly better quality video for the low format option, or maybe even a medium format option with something in between but their overall growth of this section is still nice to see. I'll probably be changing some scores around a bit but the total score should be about the same.
Score increased from 83.4 to 84.6.
| 2nd Follow-Up Review |
Review: 11-18-05 |
My, my, my...it feels like it has been forever since we've last checked up on Earl Miller and his beautiful models. In fact, it has been almost exactly a year and in that time the site has seen some substantial growth, with there now being over 49,000+ images and about 175+ videos. The site design and navigation remains much the same and could still stand to see some improvement overall but the quality here is super nice and that's a key ingredient to a top notch photography/glamour site. Earl has even started recently adding images in a 3rd size (1280) which is awesome! Now if only these photosets were downloadable as zip files! There's still room for improvement here but I like the overall presence of consistent updates and high quality content. Besides, they've got a great deal set-up for our special Best Porn users with a reduced membership price of $19.95 per month - what a steal!
Score decreased from 84.6 to 84.1.
| 3rd Follow-Up Review |
Review: 09-11-08 |
It's hard to believe it's been almost another 3 years since we've last checked out Earl Miller's Photography site. I'm happy to see that they're still updating regularly and often. Currently there are more than 1,184+ photo galleries and 422+ videos to check out. Unfortunately Earl's blog hasn't been active for a while, but his models are as beautiful as ever! We've seen a lot of nude photography sites in the years since, so I have to admit Earl’s site is looking more and more like a basic content site than many of the other, more "artistic" sites we've had the chance to review. However, by all means this is still a good site to check out. Unfortunately though, it looks like we've lost our special user discount, so a membership here is back up to almost $30 bucks per month. Overall that's not too bad considering the amount of content and updates, but I was kind-of hoping to see more user/browse features and even higher quality content. Pics are at about 1280x800 pixels and videos stream up to 1200k, although there is an option for Flash that I don't think was available last time. In terms of browse and user options, well they're there, but the pages are starting to look a little too cluttered for my tastes. Overall this is still a good content site, but don't think it will remain as one of my top picks.
Score decreased from 84.1 to 82.0.
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