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>>97587 I use HDR's for when i'm bored or can't get the shot I picture. I don't think I do good "examples" of them, I just do less tone mapping crazyness than most people.
Your example is mediocre, because the shot you wanted isn't really there in the first place. The shot I think you were going for needs an ND filter. (tell me how many shots went into it, and how long the middle exposure was and I can give you more advice)
IF I was you in the original, I would have set the aperture pretty much as small as it could go, used a slightly wider focal length, and taken the longest shutter speeds I could. (low ISO) Probably would have gone for about 7 exposures, One So freaking long everything including the sea would have been just a fog. Then when blending You could render the see as almost a mist while still having detail left in the sky. Waves look strange when they are all ghost like, so longer shutter speeds for rough water HDR's gives that flat fog look.
Anyway heres an HDR I did, nothing fancy, 5 shots, auto bracketed. Still looks a tad fake, but I saved the sky from being overblown (Which is why I did it in the first place) Processed in Photomatix (Contrast smoothing high, strength was about 30% if i remember right)
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