This is an Extreme Art image as it appears directly out of the camera. The way the match burns. and the chemistry bubbles, is simply extraordinary in its granular detail. Slow motion cameras do not have audio capabilities, so sounds were enhanced during editing.
Although it looks as though it is some sort of an alien brain scan, this is simply a match that was quickly lit and burned for two and a half seconds but was shot at four thousand frames per second. When played back at a normal thirty frames per second the UltraSlo clip plays for five minutes.
This sequence has been viewed over a half a billion times, with many pieces going virtual online. His UltraSlo channel was the first slow m...