Best source for learning landscape photography?

Mostly shoot wildlife (especially birds). However, I have bought a 6D in anticipation of a trip to California in May. Intend to spend time in San Francisco/Napa Valley area, Mono Lake, Yosemite, Death Valley, Pacific Coast Highway, and if possible, among the Redwoods. Are there any good sources to get me started making some decent landscape photos? Books? DVDs? Have tried some scenic photography before but haven't been too happy with the results.

Suggestions?

Look at the book "Yosemite and the Range of Light" by Ansel Adams

Take a look at this video. It's really informational in all aspects of landscape photography and the guy teaching, Miles Morgan, has a really great personality.

You'll need to find a good chunk of time to sit down and watch this though, it's over an hour long.

http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=ZcgdzSSiOGI

I thought Ian Plant's ebook was excellent.

Thanks, guys.

If you already have a solid grasp of the basics of photography, Light in the Landscape by Peter Watson may interest you. Instead of the normal approach of doing a bunch of instruction followed by some pictures as examples, his approach in this book is to give you a bunch of pictures and then for each picture share his inspiration, considerations for composition, camera settings, lighting considerations, etc. One other note is he shoots large format film, so there are some things (like aperture settings) that don't translate perfectly to digital SLRs, but the overall concepts are of course still valid.

Kelby training has good videos. You can stream them to your computer.

Practice.

Get this book if you want a great guide to must see places out here in NorCal:

Photographing California - Vol. 1: North - A Guide to the Natural Landmarks of the Golden State

I've lived here virtually all of my life and using this book I learned about places less than 1 hour round-trip from my house that I never even knew were here...

Forget books and courses - go on a trip to a good location for landscape photography (e.g.the Himalayas, Patagonia or New Zealand's South Island) and experiment.

Lets see, maybe 4 good books on photography - $100
Lets see, a trip to New Zealand $10,000

I think the books are a great way to start, even classes can help in a big way for beginners.

It's the other way around here - $100 flight to New Zealand if you can get it cheap, or $100 for one good book on photography...

Shadowblade wrote in post #15904921
Forget books and courses - go on a trip to a good location for landscape photography (e.g.the Himalayas, Patagonia or New Zealand's South Island) and experiment.

Boo, bad advice, how is this helpful? Why is it better to randomly try different things on an expensive trip than to try to get a good background on certain basic principals? A lot of smart people have done this before and figured some things out, better to rely on them, at least at the beginning, than go out there and re-invent the wheel.

patrick j wrote in post #15907383
Boo, bad advice, how is this helpful? Why is it better to randomly try different things on an expensive trip than to try to get a good background on certain basic principals? A lot of smart people have done this before and figured some things out, better to rely on them, at least at the beginning, than go out there and re-invent the wheel.

Don't boo people, it's not nice (and it sounds ridiculous).

His advice really isn't that bad... The question was, learning landscape photography not just photography. If you have the fundamental basics down, then the greatest resource you have available to you, whether you've been shooting 3 months or 30 years, is a good place to shoot.

I have learned most from my experiences in the field, not from books.

SinaiTSi wrote in post #15910307
His advice really isn't that bad... The question was, learning landscape photography not just photography. If you have the fundamental basics down, then the greatest resource you have available to you, whether you've been shooting 3 months or 30 years, is a good place to shoot.

I have learned most from my experiences in the field, not from books.

I had the idea Bettyn maybe didn't have the basics down, hence the request for books, so I'm thinking a combination of a book or two and shooting is the way to go. Reading doesn't exclude taking pictures too. I feel I've learned a bit from a book on composition, even after running around taking photos for years, but of course your main learning experience is going to come from taking photos.