Quote Originally Posted by GrumpyDiver View Post
Understood to a point. Look at the POV you are shooting from. You are looking down on your subjects. Had you dropped you something closer to eye level, you could have potentially solved the awkward crop as well as shot from a more personal POV.

Shots like this usually work better when you are not looking down at your subjects.
If I had been looking up, it would have been at some light stands and umbrellas. This was the only shot I could have made. As it was, I had to blow out all the amps, cords, etc in the BG. As I said in another forum on another image, much of photography is about taking advantage of serendipitous moments. Had I waited to position myself for a better angle (which there was not), I would have lost the moment of connect. I will still contend the moment between the dog and his owner is far more of interest to the shot than a crop or downward angle shot. I'l take lagniappe any day over preciseness.