Moxie wrote:
Thanks, since the group is the subject I thought blurring the background would help highlight them... cropping in close and using Gaussian blur helped to accomplish that goal... also the left front flower arrangement was a distraction even though it was more in the foreground -- it drew the eye to the side away from the subject -- so I blurred it also forcing it into the background.
Well it worked well and eliminated the extra head and shoulder that seemed to be growing out of the subjects shoulder. ;)