This bridge was built in 1880 by B. J. Carter. The bridge has a single span, wooden, Burr arch truss design with the addition of steel hanger rods. The deck is made from oak planks.[2] It is painted red, the traditional color of Lancaster County covered bridges, on both the inside and outside. Both approaches to the bridge are painted in the traditional white color. The bridge has a single window on only one side of the bridge. The bridge spans the Octoraro Creek with Lancaster County on one side and Chester County on the other. It is located on Bailey Crossroads Road about .1 mile off of Creek Road, south of Christiana. The bridge is open to daily vehicular traffic and is in very good shape.
I shot this back on 4-24-2010 as seven bracketed RAW frames at .7 stop increments. I did the HDR processing on this one using a new technique I learned from the recently released HDR DVD Workshop by Trey Ratcliff (Stuck In Customs here on Flickr). The technique is called “Double tone mapping” and it de-emphasis some of the normal settings in the first tone mapping pass and then enhances some of the other settings in the second tone mapping pass. It’s a little hard to explain but is very clear in the DVD workshop on DVD # 3. It allows you to have a more fine grained level of control over some of the texture and shadow detail than is available in a traditional HDR tone mapping pass. His example in the DVD is to give some large metal gas tanks more or a dirty grainy texture but I chose to use it to enhance some of the elements of the bridge and reflection that I wanted to draw attention to.
