@barrosinc I think you're on the right track with this tree. And BTW, congrats on a nice photo setup. Looks like you'll be all set to start blogging!
Leaning it over is never a bad idea, pick the front and the angle to maximize the movement in the trunk and to avoid any horizontal or vertical lines.
As Sorce mentioned - you can compact the top by bending it down. The partial candle removal in spring is well-documented for balancing of the most-vigorous 10% of the shoots with the rest of the tree. Depending on your summer weather and the vigor you may or may not want to decandle the tree in December/January. The reasoning goes like this:
IF you need longer branches, then consider letting some things go without decandling. But, on a vigorous tree like this you may only want to do that in a few places. You'll want to make sure you wire those sections in fall to keep them from being too straight. Using decandling will create more wiggles in the branching ultimately, but will make it take longer to produce longer branches. Obviously, anything that you see as needing to stay compact you should decandle.
It looks like there are a couple scars and it also appears you may have a whorl at the top. You should gradually reduce any whorls over time, allowing the tree to produce new growth equal to the branching that you remove.
I don't think you need a graft, but I like tall elegant pines.
