Chapter 6The Importance of the Moving Image

THE CHANCES ARE THAT whatever device you currently use to take still photographs will also allow you to create moving image films, but I wonder how many of you press the button to make films, how often you do and why you do if you do! You can answer those questions yourself, but the one big question I need to answer for you is why we are even talking about the moving image or filmmaking in a book for photographers!

Still images can be moving and moving images can be still. Both meet within soundscapes.

Photographer: Chien-Chi Chang

Lets start at the beginning and decide what we are as photographers. Everything I have spoken about so far should be leading you to two conclusions and two answers as to ...

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