Not a studio shot; taken "in the wild". Uncropped with a bald sky background - as seen through the D300's 100% viewfinder (100% is great; no more surprises at the edge of the frame). Doing this indoors is a snap; outdoors is more of a challenge.
Tripod at ground level; my new Markins M20 ball head made the composition fairly easy and kept it rock solid steady, knee pads, a right angle viewfinder (camera almost touching the ground & pointing up makes getting your eye to the camera's viewfinder impossible), and an 18-200 lens with a Canon 500 D close-up attachment to allow tweaking the framing to get the edges of the frame "just so".
f/32 to get everything as sharp as possible; used center weighted metering on the upper left front petals and then cranked in +2/3 EV to make them slightly brighter than the "middle gray" that the meter would indicate. My intent was to blow out the sky and leave the flower well exposed - succeeded.
Technique trumps point & shoot.