About

I use TomRoelandts.com to show off my travel and pinhole photos, and to post some general articles on things that I’m interested in. The site exists since 2004, although the older photo series were made before that time. I am on Twitter and on LinkedIn.

All the photos on this site, and the site itself, were made by Tom Roelandts. The older series (China, the United States and the United Kingdom) with a Nikon Coolpix 950 digital camera. The photos from the Italy series were made with a Nikon D70 digital camera and a Nikkor 18-70 mm f/3.5-4.5 lens. The Portugal series was made with the same camera, but with a Nikkor 18-200 mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. The Miscellaneous series was assembled over the years, so it contains photos that were made with each of the mentioned cameras and lenses. Any editing of the photos was done with GIMP.

The pinhole photos were made with the same Nikon D70, but with no lens at all. Instead, I taped a very thin sheet of metal with a 0.3 mm (why 0.3 mm?) circular hole (the pinhole) to a body cap with a larger hole in it. The distance that the outside of a body cap happens to be from the sensor, makes this equivalent to a 49 mm f/163 lens (why f/163?). Note that f/163 is about 8 stops slower than your typical f/10 aperture (why 8 stops?). This lengthens an, also typical, 1/250 s exposure to a full second. I used a tripod!

The site itself is, since 2011, powered by Drupal, an open source content management system. The convert tool from ImageMagick was used to resize the photos for the web.