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Going in a distinctly different direction than the other site included in this mini-network, Lust Series, The Fetish Series skips the traditional "babes" and pornstars and gives us equally hot, but very different, fetish models dressed up for kinky fun in a variety of different and very sexy outfits, ranging from panties and tight t-shirts in funky color combinations (and sometimes with matching hair color on the model), over net stockings and sexy lingerie to various latex and rubber outfits.
The photo content looks exceptional, and the artistic experimentation with lighting, setting etc. fits the content extremely well.
Similar positive things can be said about the impressive video collection, although the technical quality here is unfortunately not quite a match for the photos.
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| Pictures: |
135 photosets (approx. 30-100 per set)
1152 px resolution |
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70 (approx. 1-10 minutes each)
Windows Media (wmv) and Real Media (rm) available
Highest quality: wmv 540x360, 512 kbit
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Full access to Lust Series |
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1 month recurring: $20
1 month non-recurring: $25 |
It's interesting how two sites both catering, at least superficially, to similar clothing fetishes can manage to be like night and day.
If Only Tease - reviewed last week - is the bright sunny day with all its sexy blonde teen models (alright, stereotyping here, there are other girls on the site as well) dressed up in uniforms, lingerie, stockings, and a long list of other more or less revealing outfits, then The Fetish Series is definately the dark and kinky night.
A quick glance at the tour page, or the tag line "Fetish, Gothic and Neopunk" should tell you what we're dealing with here.
While these girls aren't all dressed up in latex - some go as simple as a pair of panties and a t-shirt, others in lingerie, net stockings, dresses or mini skirts - you can be pretty sure that if the outfit doesn't scream "unusual" (and more often than not it actually does, as even the "simple" outfits are in interesting designs, colors or combinations), the model herself (fancy haircolor perhaps, or tattoos or piercings - nothing excessive though), the setting or photographic elements like lighting will make both photosets and videos stand out and generally look exceptional - and hot.
I'm still pretty new to the fetish scene, but I nevertheless still recognize a few of the girls at The Fetish Series, like Dana DeArmond, Masuimi Max and Ariel X. Other frequently returning models include Juliette La Fleur, Miss Conduct, Aprella and Emily Marilyn - and I'm guessing that they, or other of the girls, are well known fetish models as well.
I assume I'll figure that out for myself in a few months when I'll likely have visited at least a few other fetish sites.
Given my lack of experience with this niche I also can't be a hundred percent sure that the content at The Fetish Series is exclusive, but given the consistency in style and content as well as in technical quality I'm inclined to say that at least most of it is. Perhaps all of it.
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And speaking of technical quality, the photo content in particular looks outstanding. The photographic quality (you know, all that lighting, setting, style stuff) impresses in nearly every photoset, and the style is often very artistic but always fitting the model and the theme very well.
The resolution is also more than acceptable at 1152 pixels - and the photos are very sharp. In fact, I'm surprised that they aren't compressed a bit more, many if not most of them weighing in at almost (or even above) a megabyte - they would still look great at half that or less.
As it is you're looking at a site where even the photo content is almost out of reach for dialup users (although their numbers are rapidly dwindling of course).
As I'm always one to praise high quality it obviously feels a bit strange complaining here, but in this particular case it does seem to be mostly a question of a slight lack of optimization rather than having to settle with a tradeoff.
That aside, but staying on the topic of photo content, it's also worth mentioning that all sets can be downloaded in zip files, which is always nice on photo heavy sites.
Moving onto the 70 videos on the site (softcore solo sex and posing mostly, along with some interviews and behind the scenes stuff from photo sessions), the quality here fares a bit better than the not so great (sorry, crappy) 320x240 videos at Lust Series.
The resolution at The Fetish Series is quite impressive in fact, 540x360, but unfortunately the pretty mediocre bitrate (512 kbit) makes the videos look fairly pixilated and blurry if you view them in full screen mode.
I've seen a lot worse though, and not just on a few sites.
Altogether The Fetish Series looks like a pretty neat package for fans of the "darker" fetish content. The girls are hot but generally (and probably fortunately in this niche) very different from the typical "babes" and pornstars in appearance, and they look spectacular in their varied and sexy outfits - thanks for a large part also to the excellent and artistically experimenting photography.
Since The Fetish Series is among the first fetish sites I'm reviewing, I can't really say how large the site is compared to others in the same or similar niches, but what I can say is that I'm confident you're getting one very hot and very well designed softcore fetish site here - and that the low $20 price tag additionally includes access to Lust Series makes for an even better deal (although the two sites are so distinctly different in theme that I guess some of you will only be interested in one and not the other).
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