Quote - Your eyes? May sound stupid but if an image doesn't look right  to you it's not right.

I must say that I agree wholeheartedly with aeilkema's point about "Your eyes".

My intent is not in any way to diminish the usefulness of BB's light meter, but only to stress what to me seems an obvious point. Your eyes must be the final arbiter! If it don't look good, it ain't good, no matter what a light meter says.

I take a lot of photographs, I always use a light meter, but I very rarely use the exposure suggested by the light meter. I use the exposure that looks right to my eye, and very much with the sort of processing I intend to use on the image in mind. My light meter is very useful, but I use it to gather information, I don't let it mandate what what I must do. My eye is always the final arbiter. As aeilkema says "Use tools.... but also depend on your eyes and personal taste."

P.S.
I have no desire to take sides in any feud that may be going on between BB and aeilkema ("Why do you always crank about everything I do, aeilkema?". I have no knowledge of what may have gone before, but my personal opinion is that, in this particular instance, aeilkema makes a good point, and that point is worth defending. Taken at face value, there is nothing in aeilkema's statement that goes against BB's meter, or the using of it. He only points out the eye is another tool, the most important tool in any graphic artists tool box. Who could disagree with that?