Bresson on light meters:
You mustn’t use a light meter, you have to know exactly what, to weigh the light. A cook doesn’t take a scale to know how much salt you should put in a cake. The salt you put to give, to enhance the sugar. It’s intuition, it’s instinctive, and it’s the same thing.
An Interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson from 1958 | PetaPixel
Far out man….far out. Learn the sunny 16 rule and experiment. Don’t allow yourself to succumb to the light meter.