Digital photography is a great convenience, but there’s something to be said about hand making a photo.

The new exhibit at Auric Gallery, “Sal Argenti (Salt of Silver),” features more than 60 photos by Angela Crews, Richard Rinker, Dan Russell and Don Jones, who used processes from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The show opens with a free reception Friday and runs through September.

“There’s a slowing down and you’re forced to look at all the aspects of the process,” said Crews, a longtime teacher in Bemis School of Art’s darkroom. “Photography is an art form and you’re looking at light and composition, but there’s also the scientific, chemistry side of it. There are so many different facets of it — they keep me intrigued.”

The photos pick up the history of photography from 1851, wi

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