How do you decide what to do with your pictures?

[skywalker]

It depends on your sense of art... But trial and error is a must.

 

[mgilvey]

Learn lots of techniques so you have them in your arsenal when you need them. Also expose your mind to lots of photography In all kinds of venues so you see what it looks like in that situation. I spend a lot of time studying b&w images that are printed in books and mags because I want to understand what makes some of them look silver.

Subscribe to podcasts. My favorite for Fine art photography is LensWork by Brooks Jensen. Learn to critique - its not just the presenter who benefits, the critiquer learns about what they like.

There's nothing wrong with going back to old images and reworking them with new skills, new vision, new ideas and improved software. Just make sure you learn to capture the best image your current device is capable of now so you have good files to go back to.