Frequently Asked Questions / Help
CANCELING MY MEMBERSHIP
How do I cancel my membership?
You go here and find the billing company you signed up with – they’ll fix you up in a minute.
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- Credit Card Number (the one you signed up with)
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Sorry to lose you – hope you enjoyed your time with us – come again in a few months and catch up on the updated girls.
PHOTO
How big are your Pics in the Members area?
All the pictures are provided at 1500 x 1000 pixel resolution. This will fill most big screens, whilst most browsers will adjust and automatically resolve the picture to a smaller screen. The file size is typically 100K (1/10 of 1Mb) for a single picture.
Do you have zipped sets?
No - some sets are pretty big – just choose the shots you like best and download them – you’ll save on bandwidth.
What cameras do you use?
I started with a canon 10D and I’m up to a 5D now which is a lot better. I shoot in RAW format and this gives me some flexibility to correct the colour and exposure of the shot before it’s converted to a jpeg image. I keep about 1 picture in 4 on average – some girls I shoot too many and some too little but that’s how it goes.
Why do some of the pictures seem blurry?
All my photography is shot by myself ‘hand held’ with a Canon camera and 24-70mm lens. There is no ‘studio’ photography – all girls are shot in apartments in various cities using flash gear only.
This can create a problem with a short depth of field – often pics seem to look blurry but it is actually only a very short depth of the view that can be in focus because of the wide aperture (f2.8) and slow shutter speeds (1/60sec) to let in more light.
If I shot in studios this wouldn’t be such a big problem. Also I am self taught – so I am still learning from my many mistakes. Read my story in the Shooters Diary ‘Who the Fuk is Fritz Ryan?’
VIDEO
Why are your Videos cut into 5 minute segments?
Because the file sizes get very big if they aren’t cut – and this creates problems for a lot of guys with limited bandwidth or connections that fall over. If the maximum file is around 60Mb then at least he can only lose a portion of a clip at most. If I offer full clips as well then I double my server needs – if there is a big demand for it then I’ll do it.
What formats are your video clips in?
The older content is still in Standard Definition 4x3 format:
- 640x480 WMV at bitrate around1800kbps
- 640x480 DivX at bitrate 1200kbps
The new content is now ex Sony HDV1080i in a16x9 format:
- 800x450 WMV at bitrate around 1800kbps
- 800x450 DivX at bitrate 1200kbps
Why are your DivX and WMV screen sizes both the same?
DivX is a very efficient codec – but it’s efficiency is not so much ‘size’ related – that is – I can make the clips smaller in screen size but it affects the file size only a little – so I leave the screen size big and lower the bitrate – you can ‘shrink’ the divX screen resolution to get a ‘higher resolution’ appearance – it seems a better result.
What video cameras do you use?
I started shooting with a small Canon Camcorder and then went up to a ‘triple layer’ Canon Camcorder but now I am using a HD SonyFX1 and a Sony HC1. It makes more work of the editing but the results are better too.
Why can’t I get HDV content?
It isn’t really an option to offer high definition streaming yet – the bandwidth required is still beyond the reach of most members. True HDV is 1920x1080 pixels and needs a bitrate of 80Mb per Minute. HDV is only going to be possible on DVD for a few years yet – but in time download speeds and bandwidth will both get greater. But content shot on HDV is still higher quality after compression. A very few sites are offering 1280x760 pixel video and this is considered ‘High Definition’ for practical purposes.
Are your clips DRM’d or can I keep them?
None of my clips have any DRM. You can download them for eternity, but they are watermarked and copyright. If your friends want them they should do the right thing and join the site – they’ll be feeding me and the girls that way. But you can keep your copies for your private use forever.
Who edits – do you really do it all yourself?
Yes – I do all my own editing – I find the girls, fuck the girls, shoot the girls, edit the stuff, and do some of the basic design elements and most admin on the sites too.
ABOUT THE GIRLS
It’s a series of true accounts about the girls or travel or shooting girls in general. All the accounts are correct – they aren’t made up stories –and none are ‘breathless’ sex stories – you can buy your fiction elsewhere - these stories relate more to incidents and ‘behind the scenes’ stuff of shooting girls and are real.
Where do you find your girls?
I travelled a lot in the East before I became a shooter – some of the early girls I shot in Ukraine were girls that I’d met and dated on early trips. I don’t hang out in bars looking for girls – it’s a fast track to getting robbed or arrested or both. The more girls I shoot then the more I meet.
Why do some girls do hardcore and some not?
Girls have different personal boundaries depending on age, experience and culture. Sometimes a girl will do only softcore at eighteen and then come back to me at nineteen and do the hardcore. If I only shot hardcore then I’d only get hardened girls that had been shot getting hammered in every hole by every studio crew on earth. So a lot of my hardcore girls decide on the ‘spur of the moment’ and they’ve never done it before. Some have though – and they are still fun.
Can you really just pick girls up off the street and shoot them?
Yes and no.
Yes - you can pick girls up and ask them if they want to do a shoot. The girls must provide legal I.D. and sign a consent form before the shoot – and that’s in any country on earth, or you’ll never be able to serve it on the ‘net without facing arrest in the USA or many other countries, whether you are a US Citizen or not and whether you shot it in Argentina or Zambia.
No - you cannot pick a girl up in your car and then shoot her and dump her beside the road – all that stuff you see is scripted – if you try it you’ll chance 99 years for assault and abduction. That’s why guys who do child porn and really abusive stuff are hunted – they are seen as criminals. Abusing a girl and dumping her is assault – simple. Signing a model release and ‘role playing’ is acting – just like the fake orgasms. For a lot of studio girls it’s a job – they act – they get paid.
Is it really dangerous to shoot porn?
Yes – the harder you do it the more dangerous it gets. It is illegal in most countries to shoot porn. On top of that you risk your health shooting bareback.
Do you shoot all your own stuff?
Yes – I do it all alone – it’s just me and the girl. A lot of girls who do hardcore with me do it because they understand that they’ll be alone with me when they do it – they are amateur and they wouldn’t do it otherwise. I get ID and signed consent. We both get to have fun. You get to see it. They get to earn money. It sounds simple really, but there is a lot of work done before it gets to your screen.
TECHNICAL
In the members area click on a thumb – the girls homepage will open – click on any photoset or videoset link to the right of her image. Each video ‘Thumbnail’ links to its video sequence and the icon beside it lets you choose between DivX and WMV.
The free Realplayer will play both the WMV and DivX clips. I actually prefer the WMV when played in the realplayer - but the DivX is better when played in a DivX player because of the decompression codec used.
Where can I get the DivX player?
http://www.divx.com/
Where can I get the free Realplayer?
http://www.real.com – look for the small text saying ‘download the free realplayer’ and follow the links or try this link below
http://forms.real.com/netzip/intl/intl_getrde601.html?lang=en&h=software-dl.real.com&f=windows/mrkt/R30APD/RealPlayer10-5GOLD.exe&p=RealPlayer&oem=rp10_en_ap&src=011404intl_apac_home,
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Where can I get the latest WMV player?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx?displang=en&qstechnology=
How do I go Full screen?
In most media players look in the tool bar for view Then look for the full screen option. To Exit full screen look for the tool bar again or in WMV player just right-click the video screen and select exit fullscreen from the menu
What’s the Search Engine?
All the girls have keyword associations – you can find a girl by her name or by keyword if that keyword is tied to her or her set.
SIMPLE DEFINITIONS
Bitrate
The number of bits transferred in a specified amount of time, typically one second. For still images it implies slow loading of images if you have a low bitrate connection – a typical picture in my members section is around 100K or 1/10 of a Mb – for video images refreshing at 25 frames per second it means more clarity and faster downloads if you have a higher bitrate. The more movement and faster action in a video then the higher the bitrate has to be to keep up with the changes in the image – that’s why the new Mpeg4 codices (like the DivX one and H264) are good for smaller sized images and may eventually be developed into the preferred codec for all videos right up to 1920x1080 High Definition
Bps
Abbreviation of bits per second, the standard measure of data transmission speeds.
Kbps
kilo bits per second. Your internet connection will give you specified bitrate in K for the service you have subscribed to - like 128kbps, 256K, 512K or 1500K and higher. Low bitrate connections will be slow to transfer large files.
Bandwidth
The amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time – if your internet plan has a cap of 1,000Mb you will be limited to smaller file sizes – if you have a larger limit you can transfer much more video data. 1GB will let you transfer about 90 minutes of WMV video.
SD
All my content is shot with an aspect ratio of 4:3 using a fixed pixel grid of 768 × 576 or 720 × 540
HD
my High Definition content is shot in 1080i (active interlaced) using a 16:9 aspect ratio. It is compressed and maintains its ‘widescreen’ aspect ratio but until data transmission rates go significantly higher it is not possible to serve it up in true high definition (1920x1080 pixels at a bitrate of around 5000K)
Pixel
a pixel is a single point in a graphic image. The number of bits used to represent each pixel determines how many colors or shades of gray can be displayed.
WMV
Windows Media Viewer – my files are 640x480 at about1500K – that is about 11.7Mb per minute. All my video files are kept down to about 5 minutes maximum, or about 40 to 53Mb for a typical segment.
DivX
When spelled DivX, a trademark of DivX Networks, Inc. DivX is a digital video compression format based on the MPEG-4 technology. DivX files can be downloaded in a relatively short time without sacrificing much of the quality of the digital video.
Mpeg4
H.264, MPEG-4 Part 10, or AVC, for Advanced Video Coding, is a digital video codec standard which is noted for achieving very high data compression.(Moving Picture Experts Group) MPEG4 is the most recent version of a standard for the digital representation of video, audio and certain types of 3D information. The H264 codec is especially good at compressing video for mobile devices using networks G3 or higher.