[bernie bowers]

Would like help in shooting pictures and getting a black background naturally .I've seen this with mostly pics. of flowers. thanks for any help

a2zidxdotcom gave you a good advice.

Here's some more tips, for indoor shooting:

You need ambient with low light (using a tripod will make things easier). Your ISO should be set to not higher than 200, and you should use manual exposure mode. Set the shutter speed to somewhere around 1/200 and aperture small, try with f/18 for start.

After this, it's all about testing until you get the right results - shoot and move aperture and shutter speed up/down until you're satisfied. You should be fine somewhere between 1/125-1/250 and f/11-f/22.

Once you have the best possible results, that means the brightest as possible subject and darkest and possible background, in case your subject is over/under exposed, use flash to fix that. You should manipulate light on the subject, so try with different flash settings, like, move closer, go further away from the subject, try different angle to catch some natural light, change your flash power if possible etc. Just don't touch your camera exposure settings as you'll be back on bright background again.

thank you for helping i'll give it a try