Bought a new digital camera -- Pictures are really dark! **UPDATED w/ PIC**

[hpkeeper]

go into photoshop...

Image --> adjustments --> Levels

the solution to your problem is there.

(Admittedly it looks like the picture was taken with a crappy point and shoot, but it looks better and brighter when you fiddle fart around with the levels)


the left side of the graph that pops up represents your shadow detail.
the right side of the graph represents the highlight detail.

now when refering to the sink image that you've show us, the image has
no detail in either one of those sections, so you have to pull them closer together
in your levels, if you're not happy with the image after that, then I'd say go with
some monitor calibration and gamma settings, but I believe that you would have known
that your colors weren't right before you even bought your camera if that were the case.

for more aide with levels... read about 'histogram" in your camera manual.

 

[flot]

LOL, your sink image looks perfectly fine to me... time to check your monitor. Mine may be a touch bright, but still.. photos look good on it, as did yours.

 

[Anubis]

looks fine on my monitor and mine is calibrated correctly

 

[kami333]

If that picture is looking under exposed, then definately recalibrate your monitor. Looks fine on all my monitors (they get calibrated every other month or so)

btw It amuses me when people judge monitors by what they see on display at retail stores. They are never calibrated or adjusted and usually the video signal has been split so many times you cannot get an accurate comparison.

 

[yhelothar]

If your monitor has SRGB mode, you can see a lot more shades of gray with it, or a warmer color temp.