Yamma, your tulips are still over exposed. This was shot in RAW, but it would have looked exactly the same as a JPG. In actual fact I used a Lumiquest 3 on a 580EX2 on a curly e-TTL extension cord (the cheap Chinese knock off because it is longer, and _much_ cheaper than the Canon version). I call this my secret weapon for shooting close ups, because it gets the exposure right every time; lets me under expose the ambient a wee bit to delineate the foreground from the background, and allows me to shoot hand held on the fly at f16.
