Quote Originally Posted by Medley
Here is my attempt using 1 exposure and some tweaking in LR


I apologize for using your image but I feel it provided the best evidence to my pov. I started with your image cropped off the HDR version, then tweaked it in LR to look like your HDR version. I really don't think it's fair to take an unprocessed mid image and compare it to a fully processed HDR image.

I didn't use any layering, stacking, HDR, dodging or burning in creating this photo. I fear photobucket reduced the quality quite a bit, but I hope the attempt comes through. It looks remarkably like your HDR and could have been quite a bit better if I would have had a RAW file to work from. The biggest differences I see here are from the .jpg compression and the further compression from photobucket.

I guess what I am saying is, I am still not convinced of the need for more than 3 exposures yet. But each to his own, I'll keep doing what I do, you keep doing what you do.