Nighttime exposure confusion

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Hi all

I'm a noob and I'm a bit confused about night/low light exposure. When looking at the screen, I set up the exposure so it looks correct to my eye (as it looks in actuality) but the meter says it's 2 stops under exposed. Then when looking at when editing it looks OK.

What's going on here, it this normal?

Thanks in advance
 
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The metering system might be looking at the entire frame as an average, or it might be looking specifically at the center of the frame, I really don't know. Also, being a dark image, the metering system really wants to bring the exposure up to a certain amount of actual exposure, and there may simply not be enough light to actually so that. If it looks OK to you by eye, and matches what you see, then I think you're all set. The "underexposure" is probably just a result of the actual scene being actually dark.
 
but the meter says it's 2 stops under exposed.

To clarify, what meter?? On device, handheld or post editing? When you look at the Luminosity Histogram does it show a full (left to right) exposure?
 
The metering system might be looking at the entire frame as an average, or it might be looking specifically at the center of the frame, I really don't know. Also, being a dark image, the metering system really wants to bring the exposure up to a certain amount of actual exposure, and there may simply not be enough light to actually so that. If it looks OK to you by eye, and matches what you see, then I think you're all set. The "underexposure" is probably just a result of the actual scene being actually dark.
Thanks appreciate it
 
I'm just a beginner so I don't know exactly, but I know it's called a histogram and it just has one sharp spike right to the left but not actually touching the left side if that makes sense
 
I'm just a beginner so I don't know exactly, but I know it's called a histogram and it just has one sharp spike right to the left but not actually touching the left side if that makes sense
An image histogram is a graphic representation of the Luminosity of the 255 gray scale values (from left to right) 0-255, with 0 being aboslute black and 255 being absolute white. Anytime the graph touches/goes up the left or right side, it means you've maxed out the value and are losing details. The higher it goes, the more detail you lose. If the line "fails" to reach the left side it means you haven't reached pure black in the image, likewise failure to reach the right side, indicates failure to reach pure white. Both cases are indicating an exposure issue. The top line indicates the max level of each of the individual gray scale levels , if the graph maxes out here it means a decrease in details within these values. The graph is divided left to right, shadows, midtones, highlights.

Here's a good read on the subject with examples.
 
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