Horse Photography by Teri Urwin

Daily horse photos from Teri Urwin of TUImages, equine photographer in Auckland, New Zealand as well as regular post processing tips and tricks.

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First magazine cover. Samantha McIntosh and Estina win the NZ World Cup SJ series, photo TUImages/Teri Urwin for ESNZ The Bulletin

bonus: original photo. I touched it up before sending it to them, they touched it up further.

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Calibrate, calibrate, calibrate!

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Merry Christmas from TUImages!

Taupo Christmas Classic SJ: Young Rider Championship, 1.35-1.45m. Photo © TUImages

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Samantha McIntosh and Argento WHS.

Taupo Christmas Classic Showjumping: World Cup 4th Round. Photo © TUImages.

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2* Horse Grand Prix at Equidays 2013 by TUImages

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Something a bit different: the Pointways Hairy Horse Show! Something for the 'showies' before the season starts. Thoroughly enjoyed the day! (Facebook 'Teaser' album)

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Eloise Stevenson and Rua get ready for the Watchman Stakes (hack loop race) at Karekare Beach Races.

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Woodhill Sands March 1* SJ

Originally cropped from a full-jump photo! I love having 18MP of quality available to me.

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your photos are stunning!!!!!!! where you live looks so beautiful. I wish I had fields like that to gallop through! best of luck to you(:

Thanks! I'm lucky to be where I am and be able to ride on such places - I love New Zealand. At the same time, I'd love to be somewhere more.. central, with more stuff on around me. Can't have everything I suppose!

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For a bit of fun, went through some of the more 'difficult shots' to see what editing had done to them. Shots from when the sun had set, from horrible rain, from what feels like 3km away and from plain horrible lighting are all here (so don't judge my photography on this post!)

All are shot JPEG with neutral (minimal sharpening, noise reduction etc.) in camera and edited in Lightroom 5.

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In two weeks, I'll be covering the Woodhill Sands 1* showjumping. I've been looking back at my photos from the March 1* - check out the whole set on Google+.

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New Social Media!

Twitter

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Tumblr (here)

Connect with me!

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Updated my Portfolio with some additional pictures! Attack of the greys ;)

Psyched to be adding some more in the upcoming weeks with a bunch of exciting events, including 1* SJ, Dressage/Showhunter festivals and more Horse Trials. (Check out my awesome new calendar showing upcoming events!)

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Some more photos from Saturday's pony party!

Broom polo and barrel racing photos courtesy of Hannah Comrie Photography (as I was riding) - just had to share!

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We had a fantastic 'Bling Ring Pony Party' yesterday (to celebrate a friends engagement) - such fun! After the 'broom polo' and the 'barrel' racing (barrels were actually jump stands) the picnic table was dragged out.

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Two photos from Sunday's Mini ODE showing how important perspective is! Both photos are of jump #1 in pre-training (so same height) but in the first photo, I was kneeling down to get a lower perspective and it shows. The jump looks more impressive and the background is more isolated (less sand shown, more of the trees etc.)

If there was one piece of advice I offered to everyone, it'd be to get low.