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Strictly dealing with using HDR:
The image with the statues does not look "right". the best way to explain that it by looking at the hair on the far right statue. In the middle exposure image this would be glowing white, and since you do not have an images that is under exposed enough to show the detail for this area the result is that it is still "blown" but it has a smeary gross looking solid color to it. This happens when you have images that are too far apart in exposure before merging them.
My suggestion for approaching HDR is by doing this:
1. Take one balanced picture, no light blowouts and no dark blowouts. Basically this is going to be your middle picture.
2. open the file three time in photoshop. Change the exposure on one of the images to +1 or whatever over exposes a good amount of the image. Basically this is to show more detail in the very dark areas.
3. leave the second file alone. that way it has no (or very few blowouts)
4. For the third file turn the exposure down to -1 on this image or until you can get a fair amount of detail from the lighter points without loosing the detail on the rest of the image.
5. Once you have three images that look similar but with different exposures then combine them in your chosen program into a "hdr" image.
When you are merging the images keep the strength of the merge low, HDR is just a means of squeezing out a little more detail from an image(s). HDR when used to much not only looks awful but you almost cross the line from photography to digital art. Think of HDR just like a tool like sharpening, it quickly becomes overused and trashes your work.
Keep this in your mind when playing with HDR, filters, politics and sometimes gasoline: "Less is More"
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