For those of you who have been around an entire year, this is the same pink gerbera plant I bought (and photographed) last spring. I managed to keep it going an entire year and tonight I photographed it's new flower for the first time this spring season.
Canon 40D, 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
f2.8 @ 1/50th, ISO 400
Flash fired, pattern metering, AWB
Processed in ACR where I really pushed the exposure up quite a bit. Finished it in CS4 where I did a slight crop, noise reduction, and a screen mode layer to lighten it even further.
This is very lovely. The little petal edges and OOF petal sticking up just behind them really create a nice rhythm. The overall color is almost intoxicating.
My only suggestion would be to crop a good bit of the white--maybe as much as a half-inch--to the base of the flower's cup (the darker shadow below the petals?). I think that would tighten things up.
massimo, I left the bottom in because the base of the flower is there...see the light green beneath the pink? It would make for a nice pano crop as well, though!