Well, I liked your HDR! The lens flare and Halloween decorations detract rrom artistic effect, but don't play a role in the HDR effect itself. When I started playing around with HDR, I tried Photomatix, but had trouble getting my images to align properly. My camera doesn't have the proper mechanics to do good HDR work using AE Bracketing, so I have to manually do it, and even with a tripod, I found that the misregistration of the images was hard for most programs to cope with. Then I found Dynamic-Photo HDR and although it took some work, I was able to align images that were previously impossible to align any other way.
I like the dramatic effect of the sky with clouds, but the hard part is controlling the halo effect where the sky meets the darker objects on the ground. I leave it in, for effect, in some of my work, but I really like it when the HDR doesn't have the halo. It is possible to remove the halo using a program like Photoshop, I have read how to do it, but so far I have been unable to successfully do it. I am a bit of a futz at using the Photoshop Magic Wand to do selections, and that is required here.
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