A night if studying light readings

Spent the night searching the internet for different books and sources to help understand how to read incident light meter readings. After purchasing an old western master 5 light meter I have up to know failed to completely understand how to use it. After spending some time with Hugh Gordon who had previously used owned and used them he was kind enough to spend some time showing me how it works and how to set it. Which was a great help as had not known how to correctly set and use it. However I was unsure as to how to use it to get the right settings for my camera I had spent some time in the studio today and felt happy with my lighting set ups which I will do another post describing the days events later, however just briefly explaining the lights in relevance to the studies i have been doing tonight. I was overall happy with the set ups today there was some issues but the main thing was using my light meter to get the settings correct the main thing I was doing was reading the light intensity from the original lights but without the understanding of to chose the correct aperture when considering all the individual lights something which I'm currently trying to research and understand this was today's issue I was unsure how to get a correct reading. But after reading this section of a book I found which can be seen in the picture I now understand greater that I can light then scene and then put the light meter with the dome on and place it where the object we are shooting will be, facing the direction of the camera rather than the light and then setting the camera with the relevant settings taken from the light meter. I did some testing after reading this and discovered that not all of my ISO settings are present on my light meter as of its age but still covers most and works well still. I tested the readings from my light meter against the inbuilt light meter in my camera and found that the read very close which is good to know that my light meter is still reading light well something which Hugh gordon also supported by checking his new expensive reader against mine and finding that they area very close in its readings. Taking it forward I want to work more lighting set ups and work with my light meter to getter better and better results which I do feel will happen the more I do it and with experience as I feel my work has already started to improve with the more and recent research I have been doing.