Photo: Hi everyone, here's Wanaka-based +Josiah Wells on his winning run of the 2011 North Face Free Ski Open at Snow Park, New Zealand.  This is my first attempt at a composite action shot. I've seen and admired many in the past, but never really had the opportunity to create one myself. Then just over a week ago I attended the North Face Free Ski Open at nearby Snow Park with +Stefan Haworth and +Scott Kennedy , and with +MILES HOLDEN also in attendance doing some amazing stuff with everything from a 15mm fisheye to a 600mm super-telephoto.  I'd primarily gone along to test Canon's new EF 8-15mm Fisheye lens on an EOS 1D Mark IV body I'd borrowed from my friend Blair. I really wanted Stefan and Scott to have a go on the lens during the event but increasing wind saw the schedule compressed and before I realised it we were running out of time with only a couple of runs remaining. I handed the 8-15mm over to Stefan (who's photos you'll see in my upcoming review of the lens along with in his own blog next week), and switched to an EF 17-40mm - a lens I previously considered to be quite wide until this point.  Both Stefan and Miles had been extolling the virtues of shooting into the Sun with a small aperture to generate a nice starburst effect, so I closed the 17-40mm down to f16. I set the shutter speed to 1/2000 in Manual and had to boost the sensitivity up to 800 ISO to balance the exposure. I pre-focused on the point where I thought the skiier would be and set the drive to Continuous High, at which point the 1D Mark IV rattles-off 10fps. All I had to do then was to wait for the next competitor to sail past.  As luck would have it, I was setup just in time to catch the final run of Jossi Wells as he performed this amazing move. I pressed the shutter as I heard the announcer saying he'd completed the previous jump and didn't let go until I was sure he was gone.  As I replayed the images I realised I had some ideal action for a composite shot. I wasn't sure how to go 
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