An occasional series of articles on the art of film photography and the experiences garnered with the use of colour negative film in particular by one individual photographer in his peregrinations of over the years:
Dark light photography is the art of making your subject stand out against a tonally dark or indeed completely black background.
Photography is all about light. We know this because we all have so many ways of describing it. Backlight, sidelight, daylight, dark light, warm light, front light, toplight, flash light, blue light, twilight, bright light, candle light, sunlight, liminal light, moonlight, first light, city light, half light, green light, half light, fire light, limelight, neon light, cold light, torch light, catchlight, spotlight and so on.