Ember Cascade — Hot Glass Pour Against Black

Description

This image was made in a professional glass studio with a high-speed setup capable of capturing the full luminosity range of molten glass — a material that radiates at multiple colour temperatures simultaneously, from the yellow-white core through the orange midrange to the dark red cooling edges. The pour was made from a height of 80 centimetres into a black anodised steel tray, the cascade frozen at 1/20,000 second by a multi-head studio strobe triggered by an acoustic sensor at the moment of maximum ember scatter. The resulting image records dozens of individual glass droplets, each showing the colour gradient from core to surface as the glass begins its rapid cooling. Available at print sizes up to 100×150cm on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta, the image functions as a scientific record and as a fine art wall piece simultaneously.