Trouble taking pictures, help!

[wateryworld]

Some of the pictures ARE quite bad, though, David, although not many.  A few are so skewed that I couldn't correct it in photoshop despite my best amateur efforts, and had to be retaken.   

Believe it or not, I've fussed with several different ways of photographing over the years and the best ones I've taken have actually been with incandescent light and no lightbox covering, the opposite of what I'd expected.  I don't like using natural light anymore because I've found it either casts too much shadowing (without box) or is just too dim and needs extra editing (with box) that you don't have trouble with when using bulbs.  I will never be all that great a photographer as I just don't have the talent for it, so it's not a huge deal to me.

I ended up jacking up my monitor's colour settings almost as high as they'd go to try matching the pic to the camera's LCD display and so far that seems to work.  I just don't understand though why the transferred pictures always end up so DARK compared to the LCD.  And that's not just my monitor's problem.  Oh well....