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- A re-review that I didn't think was needed until I used the new format of the site some more, one of the biggest collections of exotic women on the internet and the new format of the website makes the site work much better than before.
- Newer videos have a 1280x720 HD option, a small (.mp4) version, a standard .mp4 version and a standard .wmv version. Older videos have standard DVD resolution with .wmv and .mov files.
- New site formatting and layout is really nice. This may be hard for some to appreciate unless you were a member back in say 2007-2009. BL will expand on this.
- Newer picture sets are 3000 high end and come zipped, also has a custom zip option. Most of all the photo sets are at least 1500 long end, outside of the random very old sets.
- Search engine has improved greatly.
- Pictures, retain an amateur feel...done professionally.
- This one will also show up in cons, about 75% of the time, site is giving me 100% max download speed, very impressive. |
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- The biggest con is one I don't think I had ran into on here before, but the improved search engine could be making it easier to find these by accident. I understand that exotic means "different" to some, but women with hairy armpits and hairy arms and hairy legs have a place on ATK Hairy. I will go into it more in BL.
- I am still impressed by the update schedule that I talked about in my previous comment on this site, but it may be a little different than it first appeared to me, one of the day's updates, each week, looks to be from ATK Archives and while I listed 10 videos each week in the previous comment, it then dropped to 8 the very next week, then went up to 9 this past week. It's not a big con, but I did want to note the change.
- Only other one, sometimes the site is painfully slow. I do think 80% fast, 20% slow is pretty accurate. When it's in the slow speed state, I have to download 4 files at once to reach 75% of my max download speed. |
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The majority of my feelings towards this new version or format of ATK Exotics are very positive. I don't remember how many updates they used to have, but it definitely seems like they are updating more than I remember and the addition of HD .mp4 files on the videos is nice though I have never looked to the ATK sites for videos, preferring their photo sets. The videos are improving too though.
I want to go into the one big con since it's purely subjective. I had noticed messmer's comments on ATK Hairy, about how some of the sets were going with too much hairy. I'm not against pubic hair and do prefer some pubic hair. I don't really care for the full bush, but if the model is hot enough, the full bush won't even completely turn me away. What's the deal with the women with more underarm hair than me? A few even have the outline of mustaches. I understand that it is natural for some women to have more body hair than others, but lets have them with their arm up in their thumbnail.
Seriously, it's a very big turn-off. I noticed one of the hairy underarm ones has her arm up in her thumbnail. That's not too bad to see since it's a small picture. I think the re-review score would have been a little higher if I hadn't started running into these extremely hairy models.
It's not a big con on the updates including a day of Archive content, but I did want to mention it as well as the movies going from 10 a week for 2-3 weeks straight then dropping to 8 then up a little to 9. Neither of these would stop me from recommending or re-joining the site since I think the site does most everything right.
Onto the good, I really can't say enough for the positive changes in the site. I don't know when these changes went into effect, but they weren't completely there the last time I was member which was in January 2011. The search engine is much better as well though they still have the tags I don't see as very useful, but the ethnicity tags seem to be working perfectly and it's a multiple tier search so you can easily search for "Latina" then specify the year "2011" and it works.
Also am very happy to see them doing more sets of black women. They did some in the past, but now, at least for this month, the black models are getting as much coverage as any of the other ethnic groups.
Glad also to see the HD videos. I also don't think ATK's sites need to go to 1920x1080. Even though I download the videos of the models I like, I prefer ATK's pictures of them and the videos are just like icing on the cake at their sites so 1280x720 is plenty good for me, they also are not the overly huge files, most of the HD ones are running in the 500 MB range.
I tried the custom zip feature out. I don't think I remember a site having this that I have been on or I may have missed it in the past. You click to create a custom zip and it lets you pick what resolution you want, though this changes based on if there is a higher resolution available. You then see the images in the set and click each one you want added to the zip. Pretty nifty feature. It reminds me of Videobox's old "make your own clip" feature.
One thing I noticed that the new format has improved. I am finding models from 2006 that I did not have in my collection that I wanted. I do think this is because of the much easier to use site and search engine, but it's just as much showing how bad the old format and search engine were too.
It's hard to believe in this day and age of porn sites refusing change, that just 3 years ago this site's navigation was terrible, they only offered photo zips in parts and more times than not, I would visit it daily for the first week then wouldn't go back until near the end of the membership. This time, I have visited daily and allowed it to recur because there have been so many models that I have missed in the past that I can now find. They deserve the praise for that. Do something with the hairy models, like keep them on ATK Hairy or even slap a "Hairy armpits" icon on them. I don't mind that others like that, but I doubt those who do and join a site like ATK Hairy would want to see quite a few perfectly shaven models either on it.
In closing, the speed of the site and speed of downloads is seemingly the best I have seen when it's going good. I hadn't seen my download speed go that high on any site, but it does have its slow time which could just be peak hours. It's a fair enough trade off since the fast time is more frequent than the slow.
On recommending it, I would recommend it over all exotic/ethnic model photo sites now and even to those who have been a member in the past because it does come off as a whole new site. They also do have a few free cam shows each month, but they're never on when I have access to the computer. |
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exotics4me wrote 2 reviews (01-13-11, 08-21-07) prior to this. Archived reviews no longer count toward score. |
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Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
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07-17-11 05:41pm (Update History)
Reason: Wanted to add more detail
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| Pros: |
Has potential. Not much airbrushing. |
| Cons: |
Over the top photo editing. Diminished detail due to photo editing. |
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My biggest gripes are with the:
1)pic's quality 2)photographers who ruins the pics (content) with way too much editing 3)whoever directs the poses, setting, lighting, etc.
Photo editing / manipulation. So often I ran across photos that were over edited, they were edited so much that I couldn't edit them to make them look better on my computer. These photos were so much that the models hair would have no detail and would blend in with black backgrounds. There would be deep dark shadows on their skin ruining details. Too much editing takes away detail. Natural photos are wonderful.
There were plenty occasions that some of the models had unnatural colors. Such as, red or orange skin. They looked more alien that natural. Those were mainly older pics, but some of the newer ones had similar features. I think that was probably due to editing.
Poses / Setting...ect
For the most part, every model has the same expression. All they do is smile, some smile really hard. Nothing wrong with smiling – but they need to mix it up. Like: frown, smile, no expression, lick tongue out. Most importantly, try to look sexy or nasty.
The same hair style, especially on the black woman. A model will have 10 different photo shoots and will have the very same hair style on every single shoot. Example: Amber . Mix it up for crying out loud. I don't care if they wear a wig – just mix it up.
Every photo shoot should have at least one good shot with great clarity of:
1)(full body nude shot with good clarity/detail) standing or lying down
2)(boob shot) from the waist up to include the cute face of the model
3) (vagina shot) model laying down on back with legs spread open, but also with her face in view without being out-of-focus. Kind of like a missionary pose.
There were some many times that I was waiting for a good shot of a model with legs spread, but I was left dissapointed because the model would have her hand covering up her vagina on 10 pics with none of her fully exposed. It's ok to tease, but show me what I want to see somewhere in there.
Quality:
The are times that you want to see a model nude laying on her back, but on ATK they would either have the vagina in focus with the face out of focus or the other way around. Very frustrating.
Sometimes there are pics put on the site and the whole picture is out of focus or with the face blurry as if the photographer or the model was moving while pic was being taken. Why would something be put on the site like that.
The lighting in much of the photos is so bright that I cannot see any detail off the boobs. This is mainly for the white woman. A good photographer can compensate for that during the shoot.
Wide screen pics. In these days computer monitors and TVs are wide screens – not square.
If a model is sitting against the wall with her legs spread, why would you clip off the legs. The full pic would fit perfectly on a wide screen tv. Legs are nice – don't take them out of the pic.
Why are there so many pics of just one body part? So many times while I'm looking for one good pic of a model that I like, I can't find one, yet there's 10 pics of her leg, foot, or of a single tit.
Other:
There are two different sign-ins for the forums and the actual atk photo site. What gives? If I want to comment on a photo, I don't want to have to log in to a different site.
There should be a link were we can ask a question directly to the photographers or at least were we can give feedback. There should be an option to comment on a photo or photo sets while viewing it without having to go to another site.
The entire site needs a new design. I have never gone to a porn site were everything seems old. The navigation is terrible. The site seems like a forgotten site where no one cares to update it.
Every single gripe that I wrote about are wide spread throughout the website – yes every single gripe!!
I just had to write something about my experience there, because I believe the site has a lot of potential, if only they would work on these issues that I wrote about. Every single gripe that I wrote about are wide spread throughout the website – yes every single gripe!!
***Please give access to more than one ATK website with a membership, or at least offer a big discount to second website. I think membership would then go through the roof**** |
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| Pros: |
-Discounted price through TBP.
-Huge mega website. The site states over 1400 models and over 950,000 photos.
-Daily updates. The site states 4200 photos added weekly.
-The photos are zipdownloadable.
-No download limits.
-More Black models than any site I have ever seen, even including those specializing in them.
-The number of East Indian models is quite large. There are few on any site on the internet and this site is probably the biggest on the net for these women.
-Many well known models/pornstars. However most of the site appears to be amateurs who may be exclusive here.
-Listing of who the photographers are for each set. I found that I really appreciate R. Williams for example. |
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-Far too many tattoos and/or piercings.
-Not high quality videos. The most recent are 850x480, 1700 kbps. Way behind the times.
-Photos are nearly all about 600x1000 and some are 1600x1000. Many, many sites have better.
-Too many sets that are washed out color, overexposed, have little contrast, or miss the erotic by having the models' hands strategically placed where I don't want them. Many cut off parts of the model's body and look unnatural and definitely not erotic. For set after set I did not download a single photo.
-The search engine is virtually useless. I have no idea how many Black models there are for example. |
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I was last a member here about four years ago. At that time I thought the site was very large, the videos mostly boring and of low quality and the task of downloading to be intimidating without some kind of search engine.
Mostly that is still all true. With daily updates the site has become HUGE though.
I appreciate that the site has so many ethnic models. I know of no other site that I can compare this to as far as quantity. My issue is much more with the quality.
The videos are mostly not all that. The softcore are mostly very blabby and the hardcore not terribly hot either. There are some masturbation scenes, blow jobs and some vaginal, but that is it. There is no anal for example.
The photos are mostly not my cup of tea either. There are too many where the fundamentals just are not what I expect from such a well known megasite. Some things that are not done right are photos that have the colors not adjusted properly, or have little contrast, are too dark, etc. Black models in dark photos just don't work. Neither do photos that have one after another of the model's hand covering her vagina. When did that become hot?
The search engine is useless. This was a problem four years ago and still is now. The various ethnicities make searches a matter of luck. I have seen the same model being labelled East Indian, Island, Black, Dime Pieces, Soft Core, Hard Core, Public, meaning outdoors etc. If you search solely by ethnicity you get lists by volume, with models in it that have no logical reason at all. I think they are listed in each volume because of the release date.
Far too many models have tattoos or piercings. I did a completely unscientific study of the Black models that I have so far downloaded. Of these 104, 41 had either tattoos or piercings. Some have both. Some are small and discrete, but far too many have multiple tattoos and most of these models have these tattoos on the abdomen, thighs, breasts, near their breasts, etc. UGH!, Not for me. At least I did not find any at all with fake breasts.
Overall I liked most of the models and most of the photography. What I feel is that the site needs to be rethought as to what goes into it and how to be more user friendly. Right now it seems to be too big to make sense. |
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