Ron Harris Studio is the official site of Ron Harris, a renown photographer / director / producer crowned by Hugh Hefner as "The King of Softcore."

Who's this Ron Harris Character?

Ron Harris began his career in the fashion industry before moving into the adult world. Whenever you see Ron go in for an extreme close-up of Sandra Shine's mouth, or have Carli Banks hold an exotic plant, you know his roots are showing. He prefers young girls, and girls with supermodel looks to girls-next-door types.

Ron Harris Studio: What Kind of Porn is it?

Ron's site contains a good-size collection of his original photo and video works featuring a selection of young girls posing nude, masturbating, spreading their pussy, sucking dildos, inserting toys into their pussies, pissing, and engaging in girl+girl action. A membership to Ron Harris Studio will also give you access to its sister site, Harris Archives, which caters to those who prefer strictly soft core material.

The Girls of Ron Harris Studio

You'll find many familiar faces at Ron Harris Studio. Sandra Shine appears in at least 9 photo shoots (300 MB total) and 6 DVD masturbation videos. If you're a fan of Sandra, then you will discover her all over again at Ron Harris Studio in some of the best images and videos of her I've ever seen. At least 1.2 GB worth of exclusive Sandra Shine videos at 640x480 resolution is a dream-come-true for any die-hard fan. Ron also came out this month with a brand new girl+girl video featuring Sandra Shine and his other favorite model, Carli Banks. According to Ron, the video is quickly gaining ground as the site's most popular download, and better yet, Ron Harris has promised even more girl+girl content before the coming of June 2005.

Penny Flame, Gwen Summers, Jesse Capelli, Kelle Marie, Tanya James, Swan, Tiffany Rocks, Tracy Ryan, Stephanie Swift are some of the other easily recognizable faces at Ron Harris. Shawnie Jones is one model I've never seen before, but she's definitely worth checking out.

This is not to say you won't find any "amateur" girls at Ron Harris Studio, although Ron does uphold high standards when choosing his models. First, they must be between ages 18-23 years old. To prove it, every model's biography page is accompanied by an image of her drivers licence, which clearly shows her date of birth. Second, the models must not had any breasts enhanced by plastic surgery. Third, the girls must be able to have fun and be spontaneous during the photo shoots. Fourth, every girl must be willing to have a real orgasm on film. If the girl does not come at the end of the video shoot, the footage is discarded (Ron makes an exception for Carli, who says she's never had an orgasm, not even with her boyfriend).

Ron Harris Studio: Photography

Ron Harris shoots his models using a Canon D20 digital fitted with Metz flash. He re-touches his pics and delivers them in a large 1333x2000 frame, making it seem as if the models are right there in front of you, looking into your eyes.

Ron has make up work done on all his models, and in most shoots, its not overdone. He shoots his models at his home in Malibu, California, but you may never guess that from looking at some of his jaw-dropping images that seem to have come from another world.

Photos come in three sizes, 800x600, 1200x800, and 1333x2000. Each set can be viewed online or you can download them in ZIP file format.

Though wide shots occasionally appear flat due to extensive retouching, some extreme close-ups look stunningly real. For example, in one photo, you can see veins running down the back of Tanya James' hand. You can even make out her fingerprints. Another photo reveals Sandra Shine's freckles. You won't want to miss extreme close up photos of Carli Banks' pussy.

Ron Harris Studio: DVD Quality Vids

You'll find two lines of videos inside Ron Harris Studio: an archive of Ron Harris' past works and the more recent masturbation DVDs collection.

Ron's past works include Shocking Pink, Secret Casting Videos, and other miscellaneous vids shot several years ago. The lesbian threesome video featuring blonde B movie star Tracy Ryan and Alexus Winston is one of my favorites in the archives. Quality of these videos are decent but not spectacular. One video clocks in at 640x480, 778 kb/s, 30 fps.

The growing collection of masturbation DVDs are shot by Ron Harris using a handheld video camera, with not much editing involved. Ron usually plays live music while he's shooting and talks to his models throughout the video, cracking jokes to put them at ease, or reminding them to look into the camera. He occasionally asks his models to keep their eyes open - according to Ron, girls instinctively close their eyes when they're having sex.

As with his photographs, Ron Harris goes in for extreme close-ups of a girl's face, lips, and pussy. He also shoots sensual girl+girl scenes, though they're pretty tame in comparison to DVDs like Hustler's Hot Showers. Most shoots involve Ron's special vibrator that takes all the girls (except Carli Banks) to the land of no return. There are a few watersports footage including one where Tanya James pisses in Ron's shower.

Quality of the DVD masturbation videos are up there - 640x480 resolution, 3145 kb/s CBR with a silky-smooth 30 fps. Video filesize varies from 35 MB up to 750 MB. None of the videos are DRM protected.

Ron Harris Studio: Holes in Site Design

Although Ron Harris delivers a load of exclusive, high-quality content, the site still itches for a few obligatory tweaks.

First, slideshows have navigational problems. For instance, some of the slideshows are not in sequence, showing say a photo of a naked girl followed by a photo of her partially dressed. Occassionally, forward and back buttons for a slideshows are reversed, making you go backward when you want to go forward. Not all photo sets are marked as having a slideshow available, even when there is a slideshow for that set. So, your best bet is to just download ZIP files and browse pics offline.

Also, most links open new windows. Don't be surprised when you find yourself working with three to five windows at once.

You can get thrown off by surfing content spread over three domains, www.ronharris.com, www.eroticboxoffice.com and www.harris-archives.com.

All of Ron Harris' videos are CBR encoded, which means bulkier files and longer downloads. There was at least one 320x240 video encoded at 3000 kb/s, which is overkill. Also, Ron doesn't shoot his scenes on a tripod, and camera gets noticeably shaky at times.

Finally, photos sometimes feel too repetitive. In some sets, there's not enough change between a sequence of pics to justify looking at all of them.

Final Judgement

Although Ron Harris have a few hurdles to jump over yet in terms of web site design, there's no question that the site offers a large collection of rare, original photos and high quality videos that will make you look at some of your favorite models in a completely new way, as well as introduce you to many new fresh young faces. With the amount of content Ron adds to his site every week, Ron Harris Studio is a site well worth checking out.