Correcting depth-of-field issues

By now you should be comfortable with a balancing act that is low-light photography.…Of course, in any type of photography you are always balancing, shutter…speed, aperture, ISO, depth of field, motion stopping, but in low-light…shooting you are really pushing the bounds of those things, and sometimes…it's hard to keep it all in order.…I ran into a problem the other night, at the theatersports show.…If you look at this image here, you'll see that I have a depth-of-field problem.…Really soft focus back here but not here.…Now a lot of times you might be reviewing an image and find a focus…problem and think oh no, my auto focus on my camera isn't working.…

Here it is, to my eye, plainly a depth-of- field problem because I do have good focus.…It's just not very deep.…I can confirm that though by going and checking out my metadata.…I am at f/8.0, which seems like it should be pretty deep, but still, I have got…this softness back here.…I don't think he was moving, so whatever the case, I have got a problem that this…