going against your light meter #12

You can go against your light meter a couple different ways, depending on how you want your photo to turn out. You can over-expose or you can under-expose---all depending on the way the light shines on the subject or whatever your taking your photograph of. When you under-expose it compliments the darks and makes them come out a little more, and when you over-expose your whites come out. This is so that when you have a lot of light, your light meter tends to give you a middle ground, but you can go against it and come up with even better photos.