Image brightness of landscape pics....

[GlasgowTitan]

Hey folks, on my little trip in the hills today I took some photos, first time Ive really used my new digital camera. A lot of my pictures seem to have come out really dark, even though the suin was blazing! Have a look:

 

[GlasgowTitan]

Yet this picture here was taken from the exact same spot, just facing the other direction, about 5 seconds later, why is this one soooo much brighter?



I'd like to know how to try and prevent this from happening in the future because it has kind of ruined my shots .


Also I have decided there is no point in shooting pictures at the full 5MP my camera can do, because when I stick them on the pc, they have a ridiculous resolution of 2592x1944. So these have to be resised to be able to see the whole picture at once. I might as well just shoot them at 1MP so I can see them when I put them on pc right....? Am I missing something here?

Thanks folks

 

[GlasgowTitan]

Ah ok the resizing bit makes sense now.

SDK if, as you say thats the right way to take those photos, how do I get the brightness of the ground up a bit? Using photoshop I guess, any pointers where to start fiddling?

Thanks