contemplating

Not sure how well this works, maybe you can help.
This is my first ever attempt at the Brenizer method. Definitely worth exploring, but I think at this little size the background wont be out of focus enough. Ryan Brenizer has become well known for pioneering this technique, this shot is a stitch of 18 images. Broke a personal record for image file size in photoshop, 6.53 GB. Took a while but it did it.