My camera I use is a Sony F828 w/ an auxilery Canon 500d close-up lens. I have a home made flash diffuser mounted directly ontop my camera for the on-board flash. My settings that I shoot with are with my aperture fixed at F8, shutter speed varies, and ISO 100. In addition my on board flash is dialed down to the lowest setting. Metering is set to full. White balance is set on auto, any color correction is done with post processing in Photo Shop Elements.

With these pictures I had accidentally changed my ISO to Auto. So they didn't come out as sharp as I might like. The darkening around the tinctorius was done using the burn tool in photoshop.