Beautiful scenic overlook HDR (Opinions welcomed)

[itBurns]

So I took some lovely pictures overlooking the Mohawk River the other day and was wondering what you guys thought!

While they looked good without HDRing, I felt they looked even better being HDR'ed .. so, here they are..

The problem that I ran into (as you can see in the darker picture) is that there was a storm moving pretty quickly, so even between just a few different exposures, the clouds ended up having heavy ghosting.

Overall though, I am very satisfied, and would love to hear what you guys think.

 

[Bynx]

You could probably bring out some of that darkness with Shadow/Highlight. I prefer your last image since the background has some detail in it which is missing in the other images.

 

[pathoulihan1]

I'll have to post my results of this shot now (itBurns and I are friends and he was my partner in crime the same day I took the erie canal shot). Nice work my friend.

 

[pathoulihan1]

Here are my versions of the first and second views from that day.