BagginsBill is there too much spec & diffuse on this light meter?

 

Quote - OK, I'm willing to go there for a moment..... Not sure if your familair with Vue? Vue has a neat feature to add auto exposure and natural exposure (as well as other tools) after you render, just in case you didn't hit nail perfectly. It gives you the 'perfect' image. Now I'm going to bring my 'perfect' image to photoshop as suggested and auto contrast it, you can guess what happens next, the image will change. My 'perfect' image wasn't too perfect after all according to photoshop. But..... it also destroyed my perfect image at the same time, it just doesn't look right anymore, not on any of the 7 different monitors I've got at home.

I've never used Vue but that feature sounds great.

 

Quote - Again you're using a tool, but a tool doesn't make the image perfect at all and neither will my fans perceive it as better. You can nail a pefect lighting with or without a tool, it depends on what you perceive as perfect.......  

Anyway we can discuss this back and forth, but it's not going to change how each of us looks at an image or change the taste and personal preference we do have, we all look differently at an image, liking it or not.

 

Btw.... I do see one image in your gallery, using the lightmeter and on my monitors, that image looks completely overlighted.

You're right, it is overlighted.  The light meter clearly shows that it is overlighted but that was my first day using the light meter so I didn't know how to read it properly.

The lighter meter shows yellow around the circle (specular) which means it's burning a bit. The diffuse should have more black between the circles. I appreciate that by the way. My monitor tends to show things darker, so it's good to have your feedback :) 

I'm going to make a new post soon showing some images, I'd LOVE to have your critique no holds barred.