Hi Lee
Appreciate your dilema, but feel that part of you problrm is due to your lens.
The 18-200 is a good walk about tool, but for highly defined landscape photographs prime lenses are more suitable, say 35mm D or the 50mm 1.8D.
I know useing these lenses means more work in positioning yourself to frame the picture you desire, but the result will be much more satisfying.
I shoot Nikon and for landscape shots use Apature priority and Matrix metering, it may also help to dial in some negative ev to avoid birning out the highlights.
Good luck
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