:: petunia ii ::

needing a little help in how to capture a decent image of a red bloom...ideas?

'Petunia' sounds like she'd be a fairly prim and proper kind of a character, don't you think? And not one that'd smoke...cigarettes (!), for heaven's sake!  Quelle horreur!

But the name Petunia comes from a French dialect word for tobacco - 'petun'! 

As I read further I could see the association as the petunia is from the solanaceae family which includes among its members the potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and deadly nightshade, the tobacco plant.

And the petunia flower does have a similar look to the ornamental tobacco or nicotiana flower.

What I would like to know is how to photograph these saturated, intensely-red coloured types of flowers...? 

Does anyone have tips for me? 

Finding it very vexing...