Hello again Jon, I don't mind adjusting the pictures, but it is because your resolution is too much, i.e. your pictures are too large for the screen.
It looks like when you made them smaller, you didn't do the entire image but just part of it, thus leaving the "frame" larger. It just takes practice, getting the lighting and such right is hard, I still have a heck of a time.
Here are some pics lightened a bit digitally (over lightened BTW):
Ed