>>3190176I'm glad to hear that, thanks.
>>3190236There's definitely a mixture of ways to go about planning landscape shoots. Sometimes you scour the internet and find exact spots, this is something I don't do very often. More often, I'm looking for a general region of interest. Places that will have the potential for a wide variety of images and not just the one icon shot. Then I need to go there myself and explore. And then there's sometimes where you just have to hit the road or wander on foot looking for things.
There's a wealth of information for finding landscapes. Hikers' blogs, instagram, maps, satellite and terrain views. All of these get pooled together in both my mind and sometimes into a spreadsheet of possible future trip ideas.
My keeper rate varies. You should always have shots that don't turn out or it means you're not experimenting and trying new things. There are many times that I set up the camera and the light doesn't happen so there's no point in shooting a big sheet of film. If light is generally good during a sunrise session but rapidly changing, I may shoot as many as three or four sheets and choose the best. Many times a scene only gets one shot. Probably about half the scenes I shoot I end up not really caring for after the fact.
I consider the photographing part to be my downtime. Even after turning it into a business, I don't allow myself to get "paid" for shooting time and I have no pressure about whether or not a shoot yields any good results. I've been able to keep the shooting very separate from the business side of things and still enjoy every minute I'm out in the field. That said, a photo trip is usually somewhat intentional - meaning that I don't go to the grocery store with my camera bag in tow.
Close up of a lichen covered rock and shrub in Canada on Provia.
