Yeah different monitors have different gamma response, hence you do really need to calibrate them. My monitor is set up with a much brighter gamma than it should doo, but they are almost pitch dark for me too!
I seriously recommend you try and figure out a Linear gamma colour workflow though. You will find you have a tonne more light in interiors without doing much more work! If you take that image and apply a 2.2 gamma to it, you will see both that it's a much nicer light level and that all the colours look wrong.. The colours in your scene need to have their gamma reduced to 0.4545 gamma (or have their gamma intent set to 2.2, depending on how your software does it) save out as a floating point file, (such as EXR) and then open in PS and BANG you will have a tonne more light!
The bridge looks great, although (and this might just be me) but i liked the first images better. The one with the small simple Bridge, the triangle shape for the command section and the lower inset helm/conn console...
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I seriously recommend you try and figure out a Linear gamma colour workflow though. You will find you have a tonne more light in interiors without doing much more work! If you take that image and apply a 2.2 gamma to it, you will see both that it's a much nicer light level and that all the colours look wrong.. The colours in your scene need to have their gamma reduced to 0.4545 gamma (or have their gamma intent set to 2.2, depending on how your software does it) save out as a floating point file, (such as EXR) and then open in PS and BANG you will have a tonne more light!
@Aeries: Definitely try what he just suggested. You'll be positively surprised.
But i do like the new one as well...
Matthew