For just one example, in DSC_0100 I see sideways camera shake. ![enter image description here][1] And since this one is in portrait orientation it makes me suspect that the sideways camera shake came from your finger pressing the shutter release button. Do not *"push"* the shutter release button, instead *squeeze* it. Just like you would squeeze to dry a wet sponge with your whole hand, or, at least between the button finger and palm of your hand, forget the other fingers. Focusing is another thing that you must re-learn after using a compact camera. Locking exposure and focus by pressing the shutter release button half-way and holding it there is a nice feature, but you are not supposed to do any great changes in composition or even move the camera too much. See the picture (below) how just _turning_ your camera can cause focus miss. ![enter image description here][2] It is a bit extreme in that drawing. Normally with the aperture range of a kit lens you won't lose focus quite so quickly. Still you should respect the shallowness of the area in focus, which is affecting this photo: ![enter image description here][3] The bench armrest and the little girl are in focus, but the depth of focused area is rather shallow with system cameras. You can improve this by using smaller aperture (here in the photo it was f/5.3) to make the out-of-focus areas appear a bit "sharper". ![enter image description here][4] I took the liberty to sharpen and resize this down to 1500 x 1000 resolution, after which I cropped a sample to fit here without browser doing any resizing. From the 6000x4000 original I first used a mild un-sharp mask, then downsized to 3000x2000, re-applied the mild un-sharp mask, downsized to 1500x1000 and once more a mild unsharp masking. The face of the man was pretty bad to begin with, but is almost acceptable at this resolution. Check [\[sharpening\]][5]-tag for a lot more information on how to make your photos look sharper. <sub>(You will also find out that most of it advice against my triple-sharpening that I just did.)</sub> One more problem in self-evaluating your photos is the down-sizing to fit screen. For example the DSC_0209 photo (family in front of a brick wall) the photo is sharp at 100% pixels size (zoomed in on your screen), but as it is 6000 pixels tall it must be downsized on-the-fly to fit the full photo on your screen. There it matters a lot which kind of resize algorithm is used by the viewer software. You will get better results with the downsize tools found in a proper photo editing software. For more about this, read the answers to ["How can one determine the ideal resampling algorithm for a given type of image?"][6] [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/BUkQX.jpg [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/sQLmH.jpg [3]: https://i.sstatic.net/hd8lQ.jpg [4]: https://i.sstatic.net/LSXpr.jpg [5]: https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sharpening [6]: https://photo.stackexchange.com/q/11095/17441