I think I need some lighting or general photography help. For the life of me, I cannot seem to take a decent picture of any of my snakes. I've got a light tent (one of those cubes) and I am using 100 watt daylight bulbs for lighting (23-Watt (100W) Daylight CFL Light Bulbs from Home Depot). And my camera is a Nikon DSLR 5100. What seems to be happening is that the snakes looks really good and well lit in the light tent, but then the pictures come out dark and nowhere near true to the snake. The first picture is with a light tent and the second is with the same lighting but with no light tent. As you can see the tent doesn't seem to make much difference with my picture taking skills. Any advise would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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