Photography Non-vérité

A recent trip to a record store that involved browsing the vinyl record albums inspired the above composition. It is an attempt to reproduce the exaggerated hues and unnatural lighting effects that seem to be so common to album art of the 60's and 70's. At that time, the task involved a significant amount of mastery of analog photographic techniques. The above composition required a few adjustments to the saturation, hue, brightness, and contrast sliders on my rudimentary photo editing program. So, while it is a visual approximation of the art of the era, it by no means required the amount of skill employed to create the era-defining works that emerged during those and subsequent generations.

Here is the original image, before performing any adjustments.