Today’s snow fall, the first of 2009, brought with it the opportunity to take a snowy photo of the 209 foot long Wertz Covered Bridge which spans the Tulpehocken Creek at the Berks Heritage Center just outside Reading, Pennsylvania. The bridge was built in 1867 and is the longest existing single span covered bridge in Pennsylvania.
It was a lot colder than I had anticipated. I’m sure the feeling will return to my hands any time now…
Shot as seven bracketed Raw frames with 1/3 stop variance and then combined into an HDR and then tone mapped the image with Photomatix Pro. I used OnOne Software’s PhotoTools Pro plugin suite to do the black and white conversion and then erased the bridge from the top layer, bringing out the red of the bridge to contrast against the snow and the black and white surroundings.
