I predict this will not do well, simply due to the subject matter.
At any rate, this is my 2 year old making cookies with his mother. As you can tell, he is having a blast.
Post processing: Create dupe layer, Gaussian Blur on BG layer rad 7.8, select the background (wall, etc) on layer 1, erase background, tweak, flatten, clone out hotspots on face and some other spots. resize, save 4 web, submit.
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Very charming photo. Conveys a great sense of mood and playfulness, so top honors for that. As far as the technical details. Lighting & framing. You took this at night w/the curtain flash, which you may or may not have been able to help. The shadows are distracting and there isn't enough light on the background to contrast your subject. Also the lack of light does not allow for details to show up on the primary subject and the dough. You did a good job with what you had though.
Framing. You've got negative space to the right of the subject, which was needed to show the cookie dough. This negative space must be balanced to the left as well, and it is not. I am not sure if this was cropped out before or after, but leaving just a little more in would have help me from thinking the hand was almost lost in the shot.
As far as candids go, this is a great shot. Looks like everyone was having a ball.
Now here is a face that says it all, he is adorable, you captured this special moment wonderfully, the expression on the face the subject being slightly off center was a good choice also, gives more detail to the dough and of course the wonderful floury mess we all love so much good job 9
Good for the family album but as a portrait shot it doesn't inpire me to care about the subject. Good DOF throwing the background into a soft focus. Composition seems a bit like the little guy is about to go out the left edge = 3
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