Always land tail towards you, that means that stick movements can be instinctive and gives you the area around the battery to grasp gently but firmly. If there is a breeze stand with your back to it and use yourself as a windbreak. Try to land...
Do you have the controller on a lanyard around your neck?
If so, let it dangle on your midriff, hold the drone up with the one hand, reach down to the control sticks with the other and use thumb and little finger to cross control sticks.
With...
generally in these areas in NM taking off from outside the area is irrelevant because you will be BVLOS before you reach the features you want to film anyway