When I take pictures on my camera in the night they come out so bright?

When I try to take photos in the dark on my Nikon d3200 they come out bright, I tried changing the ISO but nothing is happening the photos still come out looking like they have been taken in the day. What can I do?

The only things I can think of are:

1) turn off the flash
2) change ISO to a LOWER (not higher) number like 50 or 100
3) turn the auto features off.

Do you understand photograhpy basics. You want to take a photo in the dark and make it look its was taken in the dark. Thats stupid no way dslr can take even decent pictures in the dark. In the scheme of this Lighting is always important why the hell you want dark image. So do you know what aperture, shutter speed do corresponding with iso.

What settings are you using?

"Bright" means gross overexposure.

Start using shorter shutter speeds, lower the ISO setting and start shutting the lens aperture until you get a good exposure.

If you are attempting to shoot the night sky, the lightmeter will try to average all the black in the sky with the tiny light coming from the sky. You must use your skills and knowledge of photography to get good shots

You must be using manual settings and not realize what those settings are. I suggest you use your camera's menu and reset all settings back to factory defaults and then only use the Auto mode until you learn how to use the other settings.

You are over exposing the images. To control the exposure you need to take control of the camera settings.

Put the camera in Manual mode. Use a tripod. Set the ISO to 800. Start with a 10 second exposure, aperture at F/8.

Increase or decrease the exposure by adjusting the aperture or shutter speed.

You need to alter the Exposure Compensation to about minus 2 or minus 3.

What is happening is that the camera wants to make the photo "well exposed", thus wants it to look like a daylight pic. So you need that compensation. Ideally you learn how to use Manual exposure, and thus you can be more certain of how night pics will turn out.

Your camera has a "Night Portrait" mode. Try it.

Manual or priority mode? Underexpose. Raise f/number or select a faster shutter speed. You can lower ISO.

Auto mode without flash? Lower ISO then swing exposure compensation to zero.

If using flash, make sure flash is set to fire at normal power.