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MPL Studios - Reviewed by The Pornoisseur at Mr. Pink's Porn Reviews
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Category - Erotic Photography Pricing - $29.95/1 Month
Erotic photography is a crowded field these days, with lots of excellent sites to choose from. This makes it very difficult for any particular site to stand out from the competition. Despite the near impossibility of the task, MPL Studios succeeds, creating a site that combines the best of its competitors with its own unique character. While sites like Hegre Archives, Gallery Carre, Galitsin News, and Whitfield Journals all put the emphasis on the photographers (as evidenced by their names), MPL strives to create a connection between its models and its members. The result is that the photographic styles are quite varied, ranging from artsy black and white to more standard color studio sets, from public urban flashing to idyllic outdoor nudity. Instead of feeling a connection to the photographer, you feel like you're getting to know the models themselves. In fact, MPL does not even make it clear who its photographers are; it is entirely devoted to its models.
Rather than simply publicizing names of various photographers to sell their site, MPL focuses on the quality of the photography. Some is outstanding, and nearly all is excellent. On average, each photo set contains from 30 to 80 images, which comprise a well edited collection of unique photographs. You will not find sets with dozens of nearly identical photos. I cannot overstate the importance of good editing when it comes to presenting photography effectively, and MPL does it just right.
Most erotic photography sites have one niche and nearly all of their content falls within this specialization. MPL, however, provides an excellent variety of content, including art nudes, erotic nudes, and behind the scenes 'model lifestyle' shoots. This means that as a member, you will be able to see each model portrayed artistically, erotically, and honestly. These three ways of approaching a model as MPL puts it: "the model, the fantasy, and the girl behind the fantasy" come together to form the most comprehensive erotic experience online. Few other erotic photography sites can boast of providing its members with all three.
In addition to focusing on its models, MPL puts a unique emphasis on its geographic locations, namely St. Petersburg, Budapest, and Prague. In some sets it seems as if the photographs are focused as much on the city as on the model. The pride with which the site presents the physical settings of its many outdoor urban shoots is unparalleled in the erotic photography world. In my opinion, reality always adds to the level of eroticism in a photograph. Simply because it is so undeniably real, a photograph of a beautiful girl in a beautiful city is much more powerful and exciting than the same photograph taken in front of an anonymous backdrop. Unlike many of its competitors, MPL almost never uses boring anonymous backdrops.
These days it seems like every erotic photography site has to throw in some videos to spice up its offerings. Generally, when a photography-oriented staff ventures into video the results are either boring or just plain bad. Actually, I didn't realize that it was possible for a photography site to produce videos that I'd actually want to watch until I saw MPL's video collection. These aren't the shamefully edited, shaky-camera backstage-style videos of Galitsin-News, nor are they the somewhat boring videos of Hegre-Art these are well produced, well-conceived videos with integrity as well as eroticism. Some of the videos have a rudimentary storyline just enough to keep them interesting without distracting from the beautiful cinematography. At MPL, they seem to understand that just because a video is not a photograph does not mean that composition, color, and lighting do not matter. I think that all the other erotic photography sites could learn a lot by watching MPL's videos.
The quality of the videos is excellent: the DivX files are fast to download and look great full screen. Each video is offered not only as a high quality DivX file but also as a slightly larger WMV file (if you're too lazy to install the DivX plugin), and as a lower-quality streaming WMV file (if you're not patient enough to wait a few minutes for it to download). The download files are 640x480 or 720x540, and the streaming WMV files are 320x240.
All photos can be viewed in three sizes: 600x400, 1200x800, 1600x1066. Some sets also include 1333x2000 images. In case you do not know what all these numbers mean, just trust me when I say these are very high quality images. You could spend months looking through the content of MPL and never come across a poorly lit, blurry, or otherwise low quality photo. I highly doubt there is even one exception to MPL's standard of high quality. And with over 36,000 photos and nearly 100 videos at the time of writing, daily photo set updates as well as weekly video updates, MPL provides quantity as well as quality.
An extremely
sophisticated and modern site, MPL Studios is a fantastic choice for a
lover of female beauty who wants a wide variety of photographic styles as
well as the opportunity to form a connection with some of Eastern Europe's
hottest girls. With its winning combination of gorgeous models, talented
photographers, and beautiful locations, MPL is one of the best erotic
photography sites on the internet today.
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