Really wonderful colors, can´t get enough of this shot - brilliant work indeed. Many fine works to be found on your account, I think I need to watch you!
LOL! I tried a few HDR shots, nothing good enough to show in DA yet, I noticed I can do a lot of different exposures than I could with my little Sony. My second and third HDR tries, netted me about 10-15 shots. Poor 'ole PSPx2 had a hard time merging all those photos! I'm going to wait until my polarizer comes in the mail before I try it again. The sky shots aren't coming out the way I expected.
You should try photomatix. You can find it around on the web. I usually take a few shots in raw, change up the exposure's then create hdr in photomatix, from there, you just have to play around till you get something that looks ok, then get the same photo (non hdr version), layer the hdr over non hdr, use a layer mask and paint out the grainy area's. You won't always have to do that to all hdr's, but that's just the complete job for me when I need it.
I have heard a few people talk about PhotoMatix. I'm going to start looking around for it. I saved your note here so I can find it again when I try the program.
PS: You inspired me with this photo ... I found some pretty decent places that had the hay rolls and the Autumn colors all around. I'll post them soon.
I can't wait to get out with my new Nikon D300 to try it out on some new HDR stuff.
So far I'm loving the 300, a few weeks ago I pulled out the 50 for some S&G's and couldn't believe the difference!