There are more possible mistakes to make than I can list, but the biggest and, I think, most common is not seeing what you are looking at. When you look through the viewfinder, it is easy to see what you want to see and hard to see the things that you are not looking for. It is not easy to overcome this. If you look at the images that you make and repeatedly say "I didn't see that", then, you need to start working on seeing the image as a whole. Practice is the best cure. Even professionals do this, but they don't do it as much as we do.
Another problem is not having a clear vision of what it is that you want to do. If you know what you want the finished product to look like, it is much easier to set the shot up. Again, I think that the best way to approach this is practice, something that I'm not getting much of these days.
Bill
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