What is your ideal photo composition?

Usually, how would you like your photo to be taken?

Because I am pretty hurt recently when people don't like the photos I took for them, strangers, tourists.

 I would like to know am I artist or are they... lousy.

Let say you have a scene like this, wow vast land pretty mountain and sure you want EVERYTHING to be in.

But life is not so smooth sailing every time and you won't be getting what you want.

So we have a restricted frame here. It's your minimum zoom, you can't move your feet either.

And here are your additional subjects, neither can they move further anymore.

So how would you compose your photo?

a. Take the maximum landscape, crop the humans.

b. Maximum human and heck the scenery that cost your $1000s for air tickets.


My practice is A, simply because I won't be seeing this view anytime soon and that is the more valuable subject. And the additional subjects are just monkeys that make the scene more interesting and I probably will be seeing them like next day, next next day and the rest of my life.

But I have people telling me that they want the full body crop!

They rather have their old dirty shoes then to have more scene, unless you are telling me that you going to Photoshop a completely new version with the 2 pictures, I have nothing to say.

Am I weird? Or it's the rest of the people?