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You may want to try stopping it down. At 300mm f5.6 is still pretty wide for good DOF. Assuming you wanted the two shooters to be in focus, you could focus between the two. The foreground looks pretty sharp to me, especially if it was hand held.
Just my .02. I'm a newb too!
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I'm betting if hes shooting at 300mm he is using a 70-300 lens and 5.6 is the maximum aperture setting when you are zoomed all the way out. At 70mm f4 is the max aperture. So I doubt he can get any less DOF.
I say work on your focus. At 5.6 you do have a fairly narrow DOF so if you have the time and not a lot of fast action movement switch over to Manual Focus. Try a few shots with the MF and see if that makes a difference. You are shooting at 1/1000 so it should be a crisp clean shot at that speed if you have good focus.
Just my .02 cents
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