For the background, I would suggest a very blurry, depth-of-field type of effect. It would help suggest action as well. As for the image you have, I have had similar commissions where things are just not going well for the image. I would suggest taking a large scale image of it into Photoshop or PaintShop Pro and play around with it. Crop just the girl or play with lighting and colors. That's the only thing that seems to help bad situations like this.
Hope I've helped. If not, please smile and nod like I've done good.
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