You’re browsing a workshop that promises five days in the Scottish Highlands with a professional landscape photographer, critique sessions included, accommodation sorted. It costs £1,800. The marketing page has stunning images. The real question — which you can only answer after paying — is whether you’ll come back shooting differently, or just return with £1,800 less. Most workshop disappointment comes down to exactly this: paying for a glossy itinerary and returning with a hard drive full of images that look like everyone else’s from the same trip. What follows is a framework for avoiding that before you sign up. What…