A Friendly Encounter

As I was snapping away at Willis Tucker last Sunday, I caught a photograph of Shasta greeting another dog. Unfortunately, the photograph, while it captures a sweet moment, has issues.


My issues:
  • The focal point of the picture, the noses, isn't centered.
  • Another dog has its nose in Shasta's business.
  • A random tail makes Shasta look as though she has a horn growing from between her shoulders.
  • Shasta has an extra leg growing out of her chest.
  • There's a distracting partial human directly above the focal point of the picture.
I tried cropping it a few different ways, but I can't get satisfactory framing that results in a standard sized photo.

Better...the noses are roughly centered, but Shasta still has those unnatural growths.

A square crop isn't an improvement over the original rectangular crop.

This isn't bad. The distracting human is mostly cropped out and Shasta no longer looks deformed. Unfortunately, I've lost the original charm of a sweet interlude amid the chaos.
It may be that I'll just have to settle for this being a cute snapshot rather than a really special photo, but I hope not. Any suggestions?

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