HDR

I tried my first HDR image today. I was a little bit wary of it, and thought it may not end up looking the way I wanted it, but I managed to make it look better than I imagined. I looked at a few tutorials on the internet and some of them confused me a little, so I found a simplified version, and just worked on it in my way for the finishing touches. There was an HDR image convertor on my version of photoshop which was very helpful, of which I had to add 3 of the same image but with 3 different exposures. One of the original image, then one with -2 exposure and the other with +2 exposure. I thought it wouldn't make much of a difference because of the tiny amount of difference in each image. The software combined the images and then you could edit it in as one of the options to how you wished. When I first changed it, I couldn't see much of a difference so onto it I changed the effect different than the tutorial suggested, and it worked a lot better for me.
I decided to use glorified landscapes so I could make it look even better to how I imagined. The first one was a long exposure shot I took of the Drakensburg Mountains in South Africa, and thought it may not come out well due to it being a night time shot. The second was of the Alps of my time ski-ing in Switzerland, which was a lot brighter than normal photos. However both of them came out to how I thought, and so for my first attempt, I don't think I've done that badly. :)
So, here they both are with the originals: