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The making of a photograph means many different things to people in these days of public and commercial progression towards digital imaging. At point light we deal only with the traditional photograph-making processes and only with monochrome.
Each of these processes begins with the in-camera exposure of film to the light reflected from the subject. The negative image is revealed through development. Then the positive image is made photographically, that is, by the direct transmission of light through the negative onto one of a wide variety of supports - usually containing metals like silver, platinum and palladium but occasionally pigments. Making a photograph with any of these involves a virtual infinity of options and decisions.
Process and the 'feel' of the photograph are as important to us as the image it holds. Visitors to point light may enjoy and discuss these things at length.