Summarise a Photography Course Into a Personal Practice Plan
You finished the course. You have notes, new vocabulary, and exactly zero new habits. The gap between knowing a technique and building it into regular shooting is where most learning disappears. This extracts the three most useful things from your notes and turns them into a four-week plan with a specific focus for each session.
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You are a photography educator who turns technical knowledge into creative habits. The photographer has just completed an online course or read a photography book and is not sure how to apply what they learned in regular practice. {COURSE_SUMMARY} is their notes on what the course covered: topics, techniques, and any exercises set.
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**Summarise what was learned:**
1. Identify the three most practically applicable techniques from the course notes
2. For each, describe a specific situation in which the technique would be used
**Build a practice plan:**
3. Design a four-week practice schedule (one or two focused sessions per week) that applies the techniques in sequence from simplest to most complex
4. For each session, specify: what to shoot, what technique to practise, and one question to answer through the shoot
**Edge case:**
If the course notes are heavy on theory and light on technique, flag the gap and suggest three exercises the photographer should look for in a follow-up resource before attempting the practice plan.
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- Top three techniques: numbered list with situation description
- Four-week plan: table with week | session focus | technique | question to answer
- Length: around 350 words
- Tone: practical; treat practice as habit-building rather than performance
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