Camera Tips?

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If I want to focus on a single flower, a piece of gray carpeting does the trick. Photo-gray doesn't confuse the light meter and white out a white or light colored flower and there's usually enough contrast with colored flowers.
For a natural background, I'll bring a plant outside and set it in front of the Alberta spruce or Rose of Sharon near the greenhouse and shoot in the morning, before the sun casts harsh shadows.
The attached photo of Red Pepper was taken in natural light at about 8:00 am.