Light and water

While we were photographing Roddy Bridge, I experimented with metering options of my D40X. The group above is two almost identical views of Owens Creek. The top is looking down at the water and the bottom is with the sun reflecting off the water. The left pictures were taken with matrix metering (normal) and the pictures are what the eye also sees. The right pictures were taken with spot metering and we get a whole different effect.