This is basically straight from the camera - after RAW conversion. It's a high key exposure where everything is overexposed except these poor tulips (I get my money's worth from my subjects). The background is a piece of lightweight cardboard curved from horizontal to vertical to provide a seamless background. Add two tulips in their final photo appearance and two antique medicine bottles (the first & last antiques I ever bought - just for still life's like this). Different.
I settled on the high key approach because the tulips looked almost black when the image was "properly" exposed. Solution - spot meter on the dark area of one tulip and let it rip. When I saw the effect this had on the rest of the image I thought - "cool", let's go with that. The bottles almost don't look real.