Vinyl Record Photographs
I own a macro lens, love music so recently I wanted to try photographing the grooves in a vinyl record. So I bought a Columbia long play vinyl record in my local charity store and brought it home to begin photographing it. Unfortunately I realised that when viewing macro photos of the grooves that you can spot dust/static build up EVERYWHERE. As I don’t have an anti-static record cleaning brush I decided to focus on the packaging & also take some abstract photos of the vinyl.
In the first two photos I wanted to show the care that is needed with vinyl; most young people nowadays have probably never held a vinyl record so these guidelines would be alien to them. The first photo shows the vinyl is old; the text is beginning to fade, the record cover is wrinkled and creased.
Handle With Great Care
![Vinyl record sleeve Handle with great care](http://www.photoblog.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/handle-with-great-care.jpg)
Vinyl Collage
![vinyl collage](http://www.photoblog.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/vinyl-collage.jpg)
Vinyl Abstract Photos
Abstract is my favourite style of photography so I had to try to capture some abstract photos and am very pleased with these results. In the first vinyl abstract photo I went for a very minimalistic look, turned the vinyl to pitch black while saturating the colours to make the photo pop.
Minimalistic Vinyl
![Columbia vinyl record](http://www.photoblog.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Vinyl_record_abstract.jpg)
The last vinyl abstract photo is my favourite, maybe because it’s the most abstract and colourful. I set the shutter to 1/2 a second and panned the lens across the vinyl grooves. In post-processing I played around with a few settings to obtain the colourful effects. For some people this could be an awful photo but I love it.