The Swings

This is fantastic.

Hi Jerry, This is an action filled image, but it has one bad flaw that is easily prevented.  You have trees growing out of the child's head.  One can avoid that by changing angle (having just sky and clouds - of course if the swing is anchored you cannot necessarily do that.)  The other method is to use depth of field by selecting an f/stop that will throw the background out of focus. It looks to me that you were stopped down to f/22 or further for this. Probably f/5.6 would work better.  Pre-focusing on manual helps also.

Regards,

Jerry Matchett

(we both have the same Irish first name and your last name is Ireland.  My last name comes from Protestant Huguenots, who were thrown out of France and migrated to Northern Ireland.  My great grandfather migrated to New Zealand, Australia and then the U.S.  The Huguenots who migrated to Holland, kept an extra letter "e" at the back of the last name.)