Pappa's Last Breaths
by koltrane75

Comment:
The title seems a bit morbid. I'd have preferred a crop which allowed more breathing room.

Shy
by siggi

Comment:
The focus seems sharpest on the strap for the S230. If your image wasn't being evaluated solely by people who will probably like to see a kid with a camera, I'd say that the photo would be stronger without it. Overall I like the shot, but I think that shooting it from a lower angle (looking up at the kid) and having a stronger catchlight would have improved the image.

Seaside Nursery
by rox_rox

Comment:
Technically, this is a fairly good shot. However, due to the rather unsavory subject matter I rather doubt that it's technical merits will rescue your score. Without the title I'd have had difficulty identifying the textured surface under the flys; an angle which included a fin or some other recognizable feature would have improved the composition (although it might have made the subject more unappealing).

The Boys Of St. Louie
by theSaj

Comment:
The light seems rather flat.

Mother and Son
by twm122

Comment:
The focus seems to be on the tree in the background. Since advanced editing was allowed for this challenge, cloning out the glare on the woman's lipstick would have improved the shot.

Memories of Precious Moments
by Moose101

Comment:
It looks like the focus on the original image may have been too soft, and you then over-sharpened to try to compensate for this. The color cast makes this look like a faded family snapshot; if this was intentional, adding a little bit of noise might have helped to flesh out the effect. It may just be the odd shape of the shore in the background, but the horizon feels like it's tipped slightly.

Sisters
by dave2119

Comment:
This is a cute pose and a very nice candid. On a technical note, the DOF is too shallow and brings unnecessary attention to the younger girl's hair.

Pool Play
by dfriedland

Comment:
The focus is rather soft and seems to have been centered on the water behind the boy. A faster shutter speed or deeper DOF may have corrected this. The crop above the kid seems a bit too aggressive to me; I'd rather see a bit more headroom.

That sea of shallow faces
by strangeghost

Comment:
Although a very creative photo of a family could have been made with these masks, this image doesn't appear to demonstrate any attempt to relate them to the challenge topic.

Family Outing
by blemt

Comment:
The horizon doesn't look level; see this page for information on how to correct this. Because the only strong color in the image is the red street I think that the composition would have been improved by either converting this to B&W or by desaturating only the street. Without the clue provided by the challenge topic I'd be hard pressed to decide whether this was a photo of the statuary which three people happened to wander into or a snapshot of a family vacation. Shooting this from a low angle with the people standing near the monument and the stone figures towering over them would have been a much stronger image.