Now that you have had a great photographic workshop it may be tempting to return to life as you knew it before the workshop. Stand firm against such temptations. Go out to shoot every week, even for just a bit. You need to get what you have learned at the workshop into your workflow. Your new found vision, techniques, and workflow should become a habit. It takes practice and time for habits to develop.

          When you return from your workshop it may also be tempting to process all your wonderful images from the workshop. Please go ahead and do post processing. You need to practice what you have learned at the workshop regarding post processing as well. However, balance your post processing time with shooting time. As you post process you will become better and better at it. So spread the post processing out, only process a few images at a time; but work on post processing regularly.

          Which images do you post process first? Most people browse through their new portfolio from the trip and select the best images; the images that excites us the most to process first. Is this a good idea? Are you already an expert in the new processing techniques you just learned? Why not start with your mediocre images first? Practice on them. Then when you are good at implementing what you have learned you can process your best images. This will make your best images even better because they will be processed better. When we learn new post processing techniques we often tend to overdo or overuse them at first. It may be better to save your best images to process once the infatuation with these new found processing powers have been tempered somewhat.

          After allowing the instructor some time to process his or her images from the trip it is invaluable to visit his or her photographic website. Go look at the instructor's images. You were both at the same scene at the same time. Compare your work. Learn what you can from the instructor. Most people think the workshop is over when the workshop is over, but it does not have to be. There is much to learn from examining his or her images from the trip. Perhaps he or she will write a few blogs from the trip; read them and learn. Many photographers allow viewers to comment on their images and blogs, so use this opportunity to ask question? Ask about his or her post processing; but please do not hound him or her.

          Please remember your boundaries. Once the workshop is over the instructor is not indebted to you and he or she does not owe you anything. So please do not ask him or her to review your edited images after the workshop is over. Keep your questions to those that can be answered quickly without needing a written dissertation.

          Go out and teach others (friends and family who may be interested) what you have learned. By teaching you yourself embed the concepts into your mind; it helps you to understand it even better. Show your images as others' comments will keep you inspired to go out and shoot more.

Keep your shooting and post processing up.