
| Review of LSG Models: I visited LSGmodels.com today, where their mantra appears to be: ”Beautiful faces. Gorgeus bodies. Fabulous photography”. It's a pretty nice mantra too for an erotic professional photography and videography site and by saying it on their tour page they of course make a promise to us about what we can expect inside. So that is exactly what we shall be expecting to see, some beautiful faces with gorgeus bodies featured in professionally shot pictures and videos. Oooh I can't wait!
”Most of our models are high-demand fashion and lingerie models that have never posed nude anywhere else before. When you meet our models, we think you'll agree that they're some of the sexiest, freshest, most natural beauties on the planet.”
The model line-up is really where this site has to stand out among similar sites. Design-wise this site resembles almost any every other erotic photography site site on the net with the classic magazine cover used to represent a photo or video set. This certainly looks stylish and I have always loved that way of showing off beautiful women, still every erotic site does it the same way and while browsing through these covers I kept getting the feeling I'd been to this site before. If it hadn't been for the models standing out I might have been tempted to label it as ”another one of those”. Instead I have to give London Studio Group (LSG) credit for their picks in models, they keep the bar high throughout the entire site.
Watching the photos and videos is as enjoyable as can be. The pictures are high resolution (low/mid/high available for all sets) and they are sharp without appearing to be touched up, so no plastic barbie skins here. The videos are available in HD resolution and they do the models justice just as they should. Keeping the action erotic ”oldschool style” the videos are professionally edited with mood setting music on top. To sum up the content itself, it really is professionally done and served to us in high quality on all fronts. The models are beautiful, if not all as exclusive as suggested they certainly are beautiful in my eyes (Isn't that a Joshua Kadison song?).
While moving around the site a few things did eventually start to annoy me, things that could easily be corrected and frankly should be. First and foremost, it was annoying to keep seeing the banner from the tour throughout the site saying: ”JOIN NOW – $19.95 – Special offer - $29.95/60 days” along with a newsletter sign-up box. I'm already signed up, what's with the ads still? And unfortunately this never goes away, it's always visible except when you are browsing a photo set. Also when you are logged in, you really don't need a ”join” button anymore infact it would be nice if a little more work had gone into setting the members area apart from the free tour part of the site.
With a site like this where you have a lot of models, and you have some models that have only done a video shoot and some have only done photos, navigation suddenly plays a much bigger role than your generic porn site. Overall, finding what you want and excluding what you have already seen is easy enough with the sections: ”models”, ”videos”, ”photo” and ”updates”. On top of that you also have a very advanced search option that allows you to search by the tiniest things such as; if a should involve piercings, tatoos, food, boots, heels and a lot of other stuff. As the site grows this search function will become more and more relevant.
The ”updates” section was a bit inconsistent for me and confused a bit at first. The idea is to browse all updates videos as well photo by the month they were added. At least that is what I thought, instead it actually shows content added from the end of that particular month back to when the site opened. In this particular case it really would have been a lot easier to know what content you have already gone through if each month's section would actually just show the sets that were addeed for that particular month.
Having said that I also just have to say that I found the ”most viewed” section a nice way to get started on this site. From here I could browse the content by what sets have been most viewed by the members of the site. This section can subdivide into ”models”, ”photos” and ”videos”.
Ok, here comes some dry facts At the time of review lsgmodels.com shows off 54 models. These models appear in 102 photo sets and 102 video sets. Do not let this fool you into thinking a model always has a photo and a video set that is not always the case.
The site is updated every day. Every other day a video set is added and every other day a picture set is added so there is always something new to come back to, which is nice.
For each video you can either stream it as a wmv file in low quality or you can download the clip in a variety of formats and quality levels: Quicktime (mov): 1280x720 – 854x480 Windows media (wmv): 1280x720 – 854x480 Mpeg: 512x288 Ipod ready (mp4): 320x180
The bottom line LSGmodels.com is overall off to a great start here. The content level, though not staggeringly impressive, is already fair and the daily updates helps to keep the site fresh and interesting to the members. I thought the videos were especially well done here and if erotic music vids are your thing I'm sure you will feel the same way. I still think they need to iron out some kinks with members area portion of the site, but when all is said and done, they keep their promise of ”Beautiful faces. Gorgeus bodies. Fabulous photography” and for fans of the erotic photography/videography genre, lsgmodels.com does not disappoint.
Pricing
30 days membership: $19.99 (recurring) 30 days membership: $26.99 (non-recurring) 90 days membership: $39.99 (recurring every 90 days) 90 days membership: $49.99 (non-recurring) 365 days membershi: $79.99 (non-recurring)
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2007-06-26

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