Lava fields in Utah

CC please 7 exposure HDR

7 images? You put a lot of work in on a setting that's not especially compelling. As for the HDR, it seems to me that the shrubbery is too light given the cues for how much light is coming from the sky. There's a disconnect here that forces me to wonder what's lighting up the bushes. Maybe it's just me.

Joe, I very much apperciate the feed back. I agree somrthing is off, hence the posting. I plan to rework the image later on. I just needed a direction. Thanks Randy

I wasn't sure, so I took a pass the first time that I looked at this. The foliage has that typical 'HDR' look that's generally caused by a little too much tonemapping and maybe a bit of over-sharpening. The sky has really taken on a blue-denim look in color, with areas of dark blue interspersed (another characteristic of HDR). I'm just wondering if 7 exposures were really needed, and whether HDR was needed. A grad filter to knock down the sky would probably have worked...