Need help with this one

[racedraper]

I was trying to take a pic of my dog on top of the stairs waiting for my but found that it was hard to crop it with all the different angles. Between to stairs and the walls wains coating. How should this be done?

[Greg McCary]

I think you should crop a little off of the right and bottom getting his eyes out of the center.

[agtaylor]

I would crop the vertical railing on the right and the dead gray space on the top down close to his head. Good mellow dog shot though

[poker]

I cropped the right side to get rid of that diamond shape at the base of the railing.

I like seeing the stair and the railing. It appears to frame the subject.

Nice shot.

[readingr]

I would get the wall corner vertical and then crop to get the dog into the top 3rd.

I think it could do with a curves adjustment to darken the shadows a fraction and a bit more in the highlights to give it a bit more punch.

Glad to show you what I think if you don't mind me editing your photo.

Roger

[racedraper]

thanks for the tips .I dont know why there is all the noise? I shot at 320 ISO and I know anything about 400 becomes noisy.