Photography advice please

I'm having problems trying to take pictures of light coloured flowers, particularly white. I'm using a digital camera which has a flash. As I know very little it's set on automatic setting so usually uses flash. Would it be better without? :confused:

 

I never use flash for white flowers as it washes out the detail. I have a micro fine focus on my camera for zoomed close ups, and I try to create shade by leaning over to reduce reflection of the sun off the petals. I mean't to try again with the lily as the sun went down but i forgot and it has finished now. :(

This was very difficult to photo but I managed to get some detail by doing the above.



BM

 

Lovely pic BM, of one of my fave flowers

 

It is good, isn't it? Thanks BM will try with white lilies again later.

 

Of course you can always alter the photo on your computer! That's the beauty of digital photography. Even though you might have a shot where the detail is blocked by being too light or too dark, the detail is still there. So when you sort your photo using whatever software you have, look on the tool bar for something that indicates changing the image's brightness/contrast and just play around with it. If it's too light, darken it, too dark, lighten it, and you'll see all the lovely detail magically appear!!

 

Hi MD, I did try with my lily pics but the details wouldn't come up.
I've just managed to take a close up picture! I haven't got the instructions on how to use the camera, but had already found that I could enlarge the picture I had taken and look at it on the camera, but didn't know how to preseve the enlarged image to download. Any way I've managed one picture, but don't know how I did it and now the batteries have run out.... still i'm pleased. It's on the wildlife thread.