Including people in your photograph sometimes is a good idea even you are taking landscape pictures especially when the people is a part of the scene. For example, green hills and a nice blue sky is a good scene, and you can take quality pictures by pointing your camera to the scene but it probably will be a casual and ordinary photograph. And now imagine there are playing kids on the grass, you can take better and original pictures if kids are included in the scene with a nice composition.

In landscapes and cityscapes including people in you photograph helps viewers to understand how big the other objects are and giving them a sense of scale. Also people add depth to plain and empty grounds and repeated geometrical shapes in a city or building. I think the-master-photographer Gilad Benari’s work will explain what i mean better than my words, as you know “a picture is worth a thousand words.” (I cannot publish his pictures here in my website, because i didn’t ask for permission to him but i’ll give links to his works at DA instead)

Out of Reach , Voyage Trough the Void , Pulling Out the Sun , Times Square , Thinking Outside the Box , Corridor of Faith

Also people can be the part of the scene, as a climber climbing to a mountain, including the climber in your picture when you are shooting the mountain only makes the photograph more interesting and beautiful.

But don’t forget;

• Don’t take pictures of people without their permission unless their face is not recognizable.
• Respect the privacy of people
• Remember people can sue you because of “image thievery”