Padma Inguva
Specializations
Floral and Product Photography
Architectural Photography
Padma Inguva’s obsession with floral photography grew from the seeds of tending her father’s garden with him in India. Twenty-five years ago, she emigrated to New Jersey for education and to start a family, cultivating a lush garden in her backyard. Unfortunately, these beautiful blooms only lasted a season, so she picked up a camera, hoping to permanently capture the magic she saw in them. Curiosity gave way to passion as photography became a way to escape the stress and presented a constantly evolving challenge. Over the past decade, she has honed her craft, unafraid of experimentation, humor, or getting a little dirty.
Today, Padma travels the United States presenting floral photography and post-processing techniques which include Lightroom, Photoshop, and plug-ins like NIK and Topaz Labs. She leads hands-on workshops and plans photography events through a meetup group in NJ, NY, and the DC area. In her words: “I hope to inspire people to slow down, unite with the natural world surrounding us, and create little oases in this constantly demanding stressful daily life. I want to set people on a path of joy, and love that comes from the appreciation of the beauty around us, to look at flowers, nature, and life with a different perspective, observe, admire, associate, and create art that lasts far longer than an instant.”
Today, she splits her time between South Carolina and Virginia and works as a business intelligence analyst with travelling for photography almost every weekend.
Class
How to photograph Stunning vertioramas of Architectural Interiors
Photographing the interiors of these massive structures such as cathedrals, museums, and churches present photographic problems not readily solved by current and popular photographic techniques. After considerable trials and errors and mentoring from world-class Klaus Hermann, Padma Inguva refined several techniques to showcase the interiors of churches and cathedrals by capturing the entirety of the altar and ceiling in one image that normally could not be captured in one frame.
By embracing the technique of Vertoramas Padma has been able to capture the beauty and magnificence of these incredible structures.
In simple terms, it’s a combination of the already known techniques of Panoramas and HDR photography. In even simpler terms, by stitching together vertical frames and incorporating HDR photography Padma has managed to present a realistic and complementary view of an incredibly large structure in a single image. As a devotee of the “art form” of Vertoramas, Padma will present her work as well as discuss the workflow that she uses to process these images. The topics include HDR (High-Dynamic Range Imaging, Vertorama stitching as well as tone mapping).
