In the media section, I was able to put a picture gallery in one of my blog posts (instead of a single picture). While this was cool, I was unable to figure out how to disable commenting on the pictures. How do you do this? Looked at settings etc but didnt see it. Thanks
Without editing the code itself you'd probably want to look into this plugin. It allows you to disable comments on attachments: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disable-comments/
I downloaded the following plugin jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries This will give you a lightbox gallery with no area for comments, also you probably need to close off comments on that article using the setting at the bottom of the edit post section
edit the page you have pictures may be on pictures page on the top you will see a see options a arrow and when you click on it, it will open and in that select the box which says comment in the bottom you will see the comment section added and unselect the comment box