A Pelican in Space
A simple choice for "Tool": one of my – now that many of us mostly type on a keyboard – shamefully underemployed fountain pens. A classic, the Pelikan Souverän. The original model is black and green, but some 20 or so years ago, when I bought my pen, there also was a blue/black version that I chose. Apparently, Pelikan doesn't sell the blue version anymore, so my pen now seems to be a rarity of sorts.
Writing with a fountain pen is associated with beautiful handwriting, but, well, mine has always been messy, regardless of the writing tool I choose. In elementary school, we also got grades for our handwriting, and in the German grading system, which is a scale from 1 (excellent) to 6 (failed) I never exceeded a 3. So in my case, it's probably better if I type so it's readable, but it's still a pity that I use this beautiful pen so scarcely nowadays.
The setup was really simple, I put the pen on a small glass jar, placed both in front of a black foam sheet, natural light from above, a warm LED light from the left, and from the right I illuminated a gold-coated cardboard "reflector" (positioned on the left behind the pen) for more golden, warm tones. The nib and the small part of the fountain pen visible in my photo are 2,6 cm / 1,02 inches long.
HMM, Everyone!
A Pelican in Space
A simple choice for "Tool": one of my – now that many of us mostly type on a keyboard – shamefully underemployed fountain pens. A classic, the Pelikan Souverän. The original model is black and green, but some 20 or so years ago, when I bought my pen, there also was a blue/black version that I chose. Apparently, Pelikan doesn't sell the blue version anymore, so my pen now seems to be a rarity of sorts.
Writing with a fountain pen is associated with beautiful handwriting, but, well, mine has always been messy, regardless of the writing tool I choose. In elementary school, we also got grades for our handwriting, and in the German grading system, which is a scale from 1 (excellent) to 6 (failed) I never exceeded a 3. So in my case, it's probably better if I type so it's readable, but it's still a pity that I use this beautiful pen so scarcely nowadays.
The setup was really simple, I put the pen on a small glass jar, placed both in front of a black foam sheet, natural light from above, a warm LED light from the left, and from the right I illuminated a gold-coated cardboard "reflector" (positioned on the left behind the pen) for more golden, warm tones. The nib and the small part of the fountain pen visible in my photo are 2,6 cm / 1,02 inches long.
HMM, Everyone!