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Bibble 5 Review

The long over due, and highly anticipated upgrade from Bibble 4.x is finally here (http://bibblelabs.com/). Bibble Labs intended, and in fact promised an upgrade by the end of 2008. Well, that time came and went. They apparently ran into a number of development issues but were strangely quiet about what was really going on. Many in the Bibble user community speculated that the developers were attempting to put in too many features, mostly in regard to blending DAM (digital asset management) and RAW conversion in the same product ala LightRoom.

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The value of a backup

Yes, you've heard it all before, "back your data, backup your data, backup your data". It gets old doesn't it? Yet it is invaluable advice. Follow it. Really, just do it.

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Commenting on Images

I have been commenting on images all morning. I have been trying to give my honest opinion and yet be constructive and positive in my commentary. I hope I have been! Sometimes this is very hard to do. I find myself more moved by some images rather than others and sometimes I cannot even understand why!

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Finally, a site perfect for my images!

I will be in the process of moving over some of my art from Red Bubble and uploading some new stuff too! I just became a subscribing Member and am uploading some work to the contests! Most of my art is based on photography, so I am loving the concept of this site and am glad that I stumbled upon it while on Facebook! Now, I am just waiting for my Member badge! Until then...off to upload!

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Finally buying a new camera - 50D or 7D?

I have always been a Canon girl, and now I am finally in a position to get a new camera. What I can't decide is which to get. A 50D will use all my lenses, batteries ect, but a 7D has a few more megapixels. It also has video which I could care less about, I just wonder if the 7D is really worth the extra money in the end. The higher end models are still way out of my budget range, so not even an option. If I got the 50D I could also afford a macro lens and a shutter release, a decent flash, and a few more goodies.
Any opinions out there?

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A personal lesson in fundamentals, or, "A tripod, a tripod, my kingdom for a tripod"

I mentioned earlier that I had a recent vacation which served to rekindle my excitement for photography. For that alone, it was one of my better "shoots" (for lack of a better term). However, for some time I have been a little disappointed in the sharpness, or rather lack of it, in many of my photos. Some older shots from a few years ago with the same equipment are so crisp and clean, its made me wonder why I'd need to consider "L" glass.

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Things are picking up!

A lot has happened since my last blog post. WAIT! It's been 3 years since my last one! First and foremost is the new chapter of Artalyst. For a while it appeared to be dead. Now its really maturing. The look and feel is very high end now. I really can't express how much I'm enjoying it. The feature list grows daily. Nice work Zee! Now we've got to drum up more interest in the site. I have a posting about Artalyst on the only other photography/art site I still participate on (Digital Image Cafe). I'm hoping some interest is generated from some of the members there.

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Color, improving my photography, and other ramblings

Like so many others I've been very busy. As such, I haven't spent a lot of time here. The main reason is I'm essentially rediscovering photography. Over the summer I started to feel like I was in a bit of a slump. I was shooting, but not getting anything too exciting out of it. I thought that when I went to Yellowstone in Sept., I'd be re-inspired. That was mostly true, yet much of what I shot didn't "pop" the way I thought it might. I've recently had an epiphany. It's actually a bit of a story. Perhaps journey is a better word.

During the summer I discovered that Adobe bought Pixmantec. I was greatly distressed by this. Pixmantec seemed to be a company that understood photographers and very quickly made a name for themselves. What I didn't know was that Adobe had been working on developing Lightroom, a new aproach to digital photography workflow. They wanted Raw Shooter for it's RAW conversion engine. It intriguied me enough to start playing with LR b3. I was amazed at what I could do with RAW conversion and disapointed at it's DAM capabilities. It was slow as molasses, but still showed a lot of promise. I was especially impressed by the control over individual colors that it offers. Then LR b4 was released. Much faster, more tools, but still really crappy DAM capability. Not even close to ACDSee.

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This sucks royal monkey butt

So here I am sitting at my computer when I should be driving to work posting about something that just happened to me.

I got ready this morning, ate and walked out the door to go to work. I get down to my car (I have to park on the street because I don't have storage room and I have to use my little tiny garage for that). I open the driver side door and everything is wrong. The dash is totally jacked up. Someone took a crowbar to the dash to get the head unit of the stereo out and they broke in the small window in the back. This is the second time my car has been burglarized (not in the same location mind you) this year. I'm just sitting here waiting for the sheriff to show up and make a report. Apparently 2 other cars within a block got hit last night too. I hope it's drivable...

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To date

So to date from the Rugby tournament last month I got a picture in the Glenwood Springs Post-Independant newspaper and I'll have around 6 pictures in the next issue of Rugby Magazine. Not a big money making event for me for sure but some good exposure and two publishings.

I'm also still waiting on the little league parents to order prints. I know that two of the kids have parents that said they would definitely buy some.

Really need these things to be profitable to continue doing them. Right now making $75-150 for an event may be icing on the cake but it sure doesn't make it worth going out and spending all this time and effort and the expense of equipment...