Hand Coated Salt Printed vs Hand Coated Silver Gelatin Emulsion with gum coloured layers.

[Bob Carnie]

Hi Bob. Sorry for throwing in the info/plug for handcoloring with dyes. I veered off your OP when I saw what I assumed were Japanese albumen handcolored prints that you posted. I fell in love with handcoloring after I saw a display of those several decades ago. I learned how to make albumen prints just to color on them. Probably as beautiful as photography gets, but I was finally dissuaded by their questionable longevity (as if my artwork needed to survive into the next millennium! )

Hi Denise

I am interested in all factors including questionable longevity... we both can hope our work will be interesting in 300years.