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I just had the same experience yesterday in Medium mode as well; also in Amarr space. I was running a mission that involves clearing a Star-Port of guards, and then waiting for the convoy to arrive, and the screen turned white as I cleared the last guard.

It's a tough call, because I definitely prefer the look of many things in High as well, such as stargates, and other structures that actually HAVE been out in space without shields.

Other than disabling rust, the main attraction of Medium to me is visibility. As has been rehashed many times on the forums, space is incredibly bright in EVE, and there are few shadows. This means typically your ship is a small black silhouette against a brilliant background of glare. We want some ship SKINs that we can still see.

A slider for skybox/system primary illumination would be more than welcome; I have to turn my display brightness down to almost the minimum to play EVE in highsec. Wormholes are mostly a welcome balm, because they tend to be darker.

Only a handful of regions are really bright. Many are quite dark. We had a pass some months ago to look at certain excessively bright nebulas, sounds like it needs to happen again.

I recommend using the shiny Christmas bauble that is the Ishtar when you fly through them. Anything that makes your eyes bleed or reminds you of Times Square at New Years is too bright.

Please consider implementing more than one sun per system (and have different kinds of stars, too, from mundane to exotic). It would solve the issue of lighting, in a way that's easier for us too (because it's easier to avoid looking at bright stars than at half the sky being incandescent), and it would also solve some of the lore you guys have about the stargates.

What happened to a slide where you could change darkness of the graphics?
I remember it from fanfest.
Could we get a test with grayscale fused into it? So people would get the right experience you are trying to achieve with graphics.

Maybe this is one of the ones you meant already, but:
Here is Amarr VIII's undock, looking up:
https://puu.sh/i5rxp/702809126d.png

..and here it is with the tactical overlay enabled (in warp to insta-undock):
https://puu.sh/i5rxW/a0dab665b9.png

In general, I consider this one of the brightest (in terms of screen illumination) games I've played.
I mean, this is the kind of view you tend to get by pressing 'center tracking camera'; you can't even zoom in enough to avoid your own glare, much less that of the system primary:
https://puu.sh/i5rKU/8ad1dc62bc.png

Here's Jita; with the tactical overlay on even it can be very bright:
https://puu.sh/i5s8o/b08142045e.png

I recommend making a post in Issues, Workarounds, and Localization to get some help. Screenshots of what you're looking at would help too, because I can't tell from your post what you're seeing.

Much of the brightness problem is that we play with the tactical overlay switched on. So you have a bright sphere layered on a bright nebula. Then you mouse over a ranged module (guns) and you get another bright sphere which stacks the effect. And then you try to read the white text under the spheres.

I spend a lot of my time spinning the camera just so I have a dark bit of space as background. I have tried all my monitor settings and it doesn't make enough difference.

Changing the white text or (better) reducing or removing the white sphere effect would go a long way. It isn't a problem with the nebulae per se.

Yeah, actually the Amarr undock is just absurd. To reproduce, just undock from Amarr.

I did not say that. It's an issue, and it's an issue for a lot of players, since it affects high-traffic systems. It's an issue I've brought to the team in the past.

The reason that I pointed out that it affects a handful of regions is that it was raised in this thread in reference to the effect on ship lighting, so we can't rely on a bright sky box to fill contrasty shadows. It wasn't to minimize the problem that it's annoying in certain regions.

Edit: When I have brought this issue to the team in the past, I did so informally, which may not have been the most effective choice. I'll follow up again this week.