My First Semi-Embarrassing Attempts at HDR

As we talked about on the 88th episode of The Digital Photography Show, I recently began my first foray into the wonderful world of HDR. 

A number of things spurred me to try my hand at this new way of processing my images: the urgings of my co-host Michael, the terrific examples of show-friend Jeff Revell, and an inspirational email from listener Laurence W.

I'm also fortunate enough to to have an account with xTrain, which has a fantastic online training course taught by Ben Wilmore. After watching that class, and downloading Photomatix's software, I was ready to tackle my first HDRs. How did they turn out? Here's one; follow the jump to see more.