Here's my attempt at HDR. And I have realised that in order to achieve the HDR effects as shown below, we need to have both Photoshop CS3 AND Photomatix Pro. Each on its own did not deliver as I wanted. After lots of tweakings, late nights and references...at last!
HDR Version
ORIGINAL RAW
HDR - From a single RAW
Labels: CS3, HDR, HDR tutorial, Photomatix, Single RAW to HDR, tonemapping