I'm Female.
I am very new to this, but I always use free software where I can.
I would like to show that you don't need to spend a fortune to get nice looking pictures.
Now if only I was using Linux on a donated PC... :p
Here are my applications:
Stills Capture: Second Life Release Candidate Viewer (free)
Stills Editing: Preview (free with Mac OS X), GIMP for compositing (free)
Video Capture: Capture Me (free) up to 1 minute, iShowU ($20)
Video Editing/Encoding: iMovie (free with Mac OS X), Quicktime Pro ($20)
Second Life Viewer: http://secondlife.com/support/downloads.php
GIMP for Mac: http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/
Capture Me: http://www.chimoosoft.com/products/captureme/
iShowU: http://store.shinywhitebox.com/
Mac OSX and Quicktime Pro: http://www.apple.com
Thank you so much for taking an interest in my stuff,
Faerie <3