For Better Landscapes
Normal "rule of thumb" that magic 1-2 hours at sun rise or sunset is when the colours and scene depth is at its best, when the sun is low down in the sky, thats when ultra violet light is at its least damaging. For landscape detail get the sun behind you, for good shadow details look at side light and for moody shots try pointing that lens against the sun. For those midday shots, forget the thought I need to get some sky in the viewfinder in quite a few situations you DON,T. Use the canopy of trees to naturally "frame" your shot or zoom in to show some unusual landscape detail.
OK.... so you want to show sky in all your landscapes, then perhaps the rule of thirds becomes more significant, 1st third foreground interest, 2nd third central subject, 3rd third hopefully that "cotton wool" cloud with blue sky.
So you can't make that early morning or late evening golden hour and you still want to shoot landscapes in the middle of the day. First thing is to install that "strong" polarizer or graduated filter and use exposure bracketing, 3 exposures at 0, -1.5, +1.5 and merge your images that should improve your landscape image.
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