Unfortunately photographed better than me

Equally ahead, I'm not a professional, not a semi-professional, not even an ambitious amateur but just a family man of beautiful photos of his children, wants to make the holidays so.
Previously I had a bridge camera (Lumix FZ28) thick Zoom and small sensor, but calendar Sanitary photos could make sometimes.
In order to get back a nice zoom range, I have my Tamron 18-200 retrieved for 160. In sum, I just do not much more than spent on a good Bridgkamera and am prepared much better.
I would like to respond to a function that I found totally unnecessary when reading the numerous tests, but now regularly makes me happy and ashamed.
It's automatic Potraitfunktion which recognizes an image, whether a person is in the thick of it and then it still the same stores a second image in which the person is easily moved and rausvergrößert to the brink.
Clear this can be cut with any free program itself, you make but rarely as a regular clipper and unfortunately I have to admit that the portrait excerpts of my children almost always look better than the overall picture that I made.
The other smart features impress me. How does the camera that my child is a toddler and therefore uses a special toddler mode (whatever makes this mode), or the Merfachbelichtung in low light, which is almost always correct identification of backlight, etc., etc.

Although I thought that there is not much left to optimize in this whole automatic bells and whistles, I must admit that as much has done and taking pictures has thus become real again comfortable and it has just become easier for laymen now to make beautiful photos ,
Enthusiastic 5 points