This is an interior view of the covered bridge at Livingston Manor in the Catskills. It is currently called the Livingston Manor Covered Bridge, and earlier has been named the Motts Flats Bridge and Vantran Bridge. I took several different shots of this same interior and might post a few more. By moving just a few feet and changing the camera angle just a bit, you can create very different looks. I will also publish an outside view. Maybe in one of the future posts I’ll explain the connection between this bridge and the Village People – it’s indirect and tenuous, but there is a connection.
Although I processed this with Photomatix, this is really just a 2 exposure HDR: one for the interior and another for the light at the end of the tunnel, er, bridge. I could have done it manually. I added the black and white effect to keep the focus of the image on the detail of the woodwork and its patterns, while de-emphasizing the graffiti that really shows up more with color, and even more with boosted saturation.
DARYL (BUTCH) BUTCHER
19 Jul 2010GOOD GRIEF. All of that “warm” wood in B&W? Unleash your D-700 and capture all of that color. Maybe the color is all gone from the weathering but I can “wish”.
mark
20 Jul 2010Hi Butch. As I mentioned, I was trying to limit the impact of the graffiti. I will publish another shot in color.
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