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JPEG and TIFF files for download

This is an offer for both JPEG and TIFF files for download:

JPEG files with an image quality of 90. Average size 3 megabytes.
TIFF files with a colour depth of 8 bits per pixel and LZW compressed. Average size 8 megabytes.

You will receive links for both file formats and can freely choose to download one of them or both.

The website is run by Ebbe Munk, Møllestien 12, DK-8680 Ry, Denmark. Danish VAT no. 26840694. Mailto: mail@ebbemunk.dk.
I am the photographer as well
If you don't find the door photos you want - please ask!

In Defence of the Old Doors

I am fascinated by the beauty of the old doors. That is the reason for most of the motives on this website to be older doors and windows. An old door is telling a tale of a long time's use, maintenance, and maybe also decay. In this way it is also telling about the lives of the people living and working in these houses.

My interest in doors and windows started as I worked with production planning on a door-and-window factory. However, industrially produced doors and windows of today do not contain the many variations of doors that was a sign of the carpenters' skills a hundred years ago.

Many of the Danish photos stem from the quarter around railway stations built between 1870 and 1900. Many doors from this period are still in use. A few motives are from buildings built before 1870, but the earlier buildings were mostly built of wood and have disappeared in the meantime.

Privacy and Trademarks

To protect privacy problems I have touched up names from letter flaps, etc. Further, it is my intention not to reveal people's private life by photographing through windows.

To avoid problems with trademarks I have not reproduced any photo with recognizable trademarks in it.

If you in spite of my best attention should feel that any photo on the website is an invasion of your privacy, then please write to me, and I will see to it.

Menus on the Website

The Colour Menus are split into doors and windows separately. If there are both doors and windows on a photo it is categorized according to the door.
The Details and Origin menus are not split into doors and windows. Most menu titles only mention "Doors" for brevity.
There is a certain overlap in the Detail menus, as many of the chosen doors have both carved docorations, a formed upper frame, and a pilaster

Technical Details

Most of the photos are taken with a Canon EOS 450D camera with a 24 mm objective. Settings are normally ISO 100 without flash. Further, the white-balance is normally Canon's Auto setting.
The photos are captured in raw format and converted to TIFF and JPEG with the use of Canon's Digital Photo Professional, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, and ImageConverter Plus.
The HTML is built by "Ebbe's HTML Generator" which can be downloaded here: www.ebbemunk.dk/downloads/download_generator.html
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