heyas; actually, reflections are always darker than the thing they are reflecting, because the reflecting surface always absorbs some of the light hitting it, rather than reflecting all of it. thus the light that gets to your eye from the object directly is 'brighter' than the light that gets to your eye from bouncing and losing some of its energy. this, from art school. (and no, we didn't have any math there. just one sorry physics course.) the reflection of the box may look out of whack due to its closeness to the edge of the table. take out a ruler or something straight and line it up on the pic, see if the sides of the reflection really are divirging like they seem to be.