This is my 12 y.o. daughter. She was kind enough to allow me to practice with her today.
Opened in cs2, duplicated, auto levels and color, warming filter, neat image faded to 75%, sized and saved for web.
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Place: 293 out of 364 Avg (all users): 4.9103 Avg (commenters): 5.2000 Avg (participants): 5.0000 Avg (non-participants): 4.8205 Views since voting: 1157 Views during voting: 286 Votes: 156 Comments: 7 Favorites: 0
The bokeh doesa nicejob hereof causing the model to pop out of the image.
Composition here is a bit odd, could try cropping so the face is either prominent in the scene or located elsewhere in the frame.
Model's expression is... odd. Normally I say 'well what can you do about that model', but here I se eit's your kid so there's no excuse! ;)
To be honest I'm not sure why this score a 4.9. It's not the most exciting image, but it certainly isn't that bad (and doesn't merit ten 3 votes by any stretch of the imagination).