Type of Site: Photographer
Address: www.erotiquedigitale.com 
Price: 
$19.95/month
Date of Review: 
August, 2005
Pornreports Rating: 

    

Review:

ErotiqueDigital is the new home of photographer Kelly Lind (or Kelly Michael Charles Lind, to give him his full due), and is the updated (well, entirely new) version of KellyLind.com. It looks sharp and overall we were really impressed. Which made us kind of surprised when we saw that the stalwart fellows at X3 Guide only gave it an 8 out of 100 (there's a link to their review below)! From their initial review (written just a few days before ours) it looked like they had big trouble logging in. This might have been because the site was still kind of new. We logged in easily and found navigation to be totally smooth. At least the first time. But when we tried to get back in a few days later for a follow-up look-see we just got a bunch of error messages. 

Frustrating, but we wouldn't shoot it down just for that. Hopefully these are just bugs that will be worked out. But we have to mention it.

Once you do get in to the members area we think you'll like what you see. The site is really the product of two creative personalities: photographer Lind and his Amazonian partner Alex LaMarsh. The stats are pretty darn impressive: 90 models, 158 videos and over 23,700 pics when we stopped by, with daily updates (seven days a week) scheduled. Since this is primarily a photography site, it's here where you'll see the best stuff. The pics come in two sizes: a default 563x750 which can then be enlarged to 864x1152. But we're not knocking the videos. They aren't just the usual "behind-the-scenes" filler that you get from most studio sites. There's some of that, but there's also some masturbation and girl-girl, as well as model interviews. The videos come in two formats (Windows and QuickTime) and three sizes. Unfortunately there's no real reason for this as the lowest is just a little postage stamp that's blurry as fuck and the middle is just about the same as the best (which is 540x360 and a 519 kb/s playback). We only grabbed the highest resolution ones and you will too because the clips are all kind of small anyway (usually around three minutes) and they aren't big files even in the best format.

What's going to make or break this site for you is how you respond to Lind's work. Take the tour and get a feel for what he does. It's very professional and very distinctive, but it's not for everyone. The style is hard to define. It's not Goth, but it has some of that feel because of the heavy make-up and how dark it looks. Not just sharp shadows dark, but dark dark. And there's a really dramatic use of deep colours. Don't know if he's using some weird filters or what. The picture is sharp, but his attention, the "camera eye", isn't always looking where a real perv will want it. He seems to be more a breast man than a pussy man, and while he isn't really obsessed with fashion the clothes are clearly more than just a prop.

Nothing wrong with the artsy softcore stuff. We're all for bringing more personal vision to the porn table, and Lind is bringing it. The only time we thought it got in the way was with some of the video, which can be deliberately blurry and weirdly lit. Of course some people might even like that, but we just found it frustrating.

This is a very good site and it comes at a totally reasonable rate. Lind has a strong, individual sense of style and the site is slick and well developed. We were concerned about not being able to log in to the members area, but hopefully that's a problem that will soon be fixed. We also would have liked slightly longer videos and less of the fuzzy stuff, but the videos here are still better than you'll get at most photography sites and there's lots of them. It might not be jack-off material for everyone, but you have to come at these art sites a little differently. We're sure that if you groove to what Lind's doing, or if you're just into the whole New Erotica movement you'll find it an excellent value.

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