Explosion 343/366

114 days ago I spent 2 hours of my life building this cube out of 192 matches which can be seen here Match Cube 229/366 to photograph for my 366 project. On that day I promised that before the end of this project I would set fire to it and here it is! This was obviously a one shot deal as there was no way I was about to build another if this didn't work! There was obviously a lot of unknowns, where should I light it? how fast would it burn? which direction would it burn? how bright would it be? how high would the flames be? In the end after a few test lighting shots I took the plunge! This is the moment all the match heads on the bottom of the cube combusted causing a cool looking explosion!

I've also posted a couple more shots from the sequence, one at the beginning and one at the end.

 

Strobist… 580exii camera left lastolite ezybox speedlite 1/8 24mm. 580exii camera right bare through opaque plexiglas 1/4 24mm. 580exii bare directly above 1/64 105mm.

Done