Learning points thus far

Having completed all the exercises leading into Assignment One, I thought it would be useful to summarise the learning points from the course thus far, both reminders and new focus points:

1. Spend as much time and as much care as possible over a photograph. At the moment, I spend more time processing afterwards and less time composing beforehand, so this needs to change.
2. Look for interesting shapes, colours and textures.
3. Learn from professional work; keep a scrap book of interesting images.
4. Use different lenses, lengths and angles to get the right shot.
5. Use aperture settings to set points in focus and other points out of focus
6. Use panning to express movement
7. Consider the position of the subject in the frame
8. Make a sequence
9. Take the same image with different focal lengths and different viewpoints
10. Aim for balance in the frame
11. Think about where to position the horizon
12. Think about frame shapes and sizes: horizontal, vertical, square
13. Crop photos to find new pictures within the same image
14. Look for contrasts.