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I like them, well most of them. 7743 and 7705 are pretty good. Not keen on Curious Cute Face, the background is too distracting, and I don't like the plastic skin smoothing look - you need to lay off that effect, particularly for children - most don't need it. Some of the outdoor portrait shots against the sun, need fill flash - and catch lights - and there's too much skin smoothing - it's excessive in 8677 the kid on the left particularly.

Apart from that, good!!

you already know i'm prepared on and comprehend your artwork and that i think you have a severe high quality grouping right here. i'm uncertain of the placement of Paris at evening, i think the only with the clouds breaking via must be the place this is and the evening scene must be a finale. On a private point , i'm no longer a large fan of blurred action photographs. the only with the female working and the between the guy walking the canines are my least well-liked photographs.JMHO. ultimate of each and everything with this next step up. i anticipate listening to the way it seems.

Hello Claire, It doesn't really matter about upgrading your equipment. It is more important that you can use it to the full. This only comes with practise. I have looked at the images that you have produced, they are reasonably good as you would expect with digital imagery.; think about how many images you have taken to produce these few that you felt were good? With digital we only use time not film.Again it does not matter which software you have, your images can always be manipulated to produce an acceptable image. Maybe you should consider this train of thought, Yes I can produce technically reasonably good images of children with reasonably good composition at this size. BUT is this all that I can do? Do you want to do this kind of imagery forever. To see your full potential as a photographer it would be better to have a much wider portfolio of work that people could discuss with you.. What about landscapes, urban landscapes, reportage, composition using colour, composition using black and white were the composition is a lot more important. Do you have control of the depth of field and how do you use that to achieve maximum effect. Can you control movement, Can you handle atmospheric recession of colour Can you work very close up and much, much more. A much wider portfolio would elicit a greater response to your potential. I hope these comments are helpful to you.Many of your images at present represent a cross section of stock poses used throughout history by photographers of children with or without parents present, this indicates that you have learnt by looking at the work of others; a very good start but you need to offer a wider portfolio. Keep up the good work but broaden out your photographic horizons. I used to leave lots of copies of National Geographic laying around the workshop near the photocopier so that students could collect images of that which they considered exceptional work to paste into their workbooks and write opinions about.Always keep a little notebook with your experiments in and camera settings, ie film speed, fstop, shutter speed, light conditions etc, this note book will become a private little manual for you of your sucesses and failures.

I like them. They look pretty good to me. I really like IMG_8241. The baby with the blue eyes. I am a regular person who knows nothing about photography but must say they look great.

Not bad, fairly typical for baby photography. They are in focus and you have captured good expressions. Personally I think you are using too much skin smoothing.