The Reality of Lighting when Traveling
We have all read a great deal of blogs about pros as well as books by pros. In these books, there is a great deal of information about lighting, but the golden rule is if you want to take good landscape photos the best light occurs either early in the morning or in the late afternoon.
The reality of course, is that this is often not an option for us mere mortals. We do not have the flexibility to get up at the wee hours of the morning and trek to a good spot that we scoped out the day before and stay there for several hours getting good shots. If we did this, our families would kill us.
Therefore much of the light we get to shoot in is of the worst kind. It occurs when the sun is high above during the mid day. The other reality is that you may find that the sky is cloudy and ugly on that particular day. However, this does not necessarily mean that all hope is lost. There are a number of options available to you and in this post, as well as future ones, I will go over these in more detail.