(I know there's already several "The photo thing doesn't work!" threads out there, but I'm having a different problem than most of you guys seem to be having.)

OK, so I'm trying to get a photo of this room:

But when I take a photo, I get this (pardon the size, it's supposed to be for a particular purpose):


It's too close up and too dark. Is anyone else having this problem? How do I fix it? [:-/]