Introduction

I truly love the power of video. It’s my favorite medium for telling stories because it gives me the ability to capture life and emotion. For more than 25 years, I’ve been shooting video, capturing family moments on the weekend and creating television commercials, broadcast news, and web video on the weekdays.

However, the best feeling is not seeing my own work, but rather watching others catch enthusiasm and decide to become visual storytellers. Two years ago I set out to document the merger of photography and video when I co-wrote From Still to Motion: A photographer’s guide to creating video with your DSLR for Peachpit Press. The book was well received by the pro community, but I heard from many that they needed a foundation to ...

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