Another exeriment with overexposure

I have been playing with the idea of overexposing a few stops and just shooting without metering that much. If I am at 2.8 aperture, then shooting at like 1/125 or 1/250 in the shade and just going for it even if the light changes. Check these out. I was at a session and my light meter started giving me the same exact reading even when I moved it to a very different lighting situation, so I obviously knew it wasn't working. I just tried to make a conservative estimate of what the light was at erring on the side of overexposure. I took both of these images right at sunset and my setting for both images was 2.0 1/60 (it was my conservative estimate, remember? But I forgot to give it a few more stops when we went into the direct sun). I am guessing that I was about six stops over in the sunny one and maybe 3ish in the shaded one.

Look how sunny and colorful the overexposed image is! It's very Hawaiian vacation-ish and this is Oregon!! The water was grey to the natural eye!!