What do you think of these two images and which one is better?

Two HDRs I made of Snelling Hall at the University of Georgia. It was here that I picked up a few things that stuck with me the rest of my life: pounds.

It's a dining hall and it's huge inside, with lots of food. Freshman fifteen is real, my friends.

I got another fifteen on my honeymoon. That thirty has been with me ever since.

So, what do you think of these photos and which one is better? Thanks

first one I think but hard to tell

im going to go with the second. the first seems the orange/yellows are a bit to strong.

the front of the building looks slightly brigher in #2, so I'll say #2

How many frames did you use? The reason I ask is because you didn't pull the shadows out very much. When I capture an HDR bracket I use 1 stop between bracketed shots and make sure I cover the entire DR. The closer you keep the bracketed images the more clean data there is for your blending/merging software to choose from. On these two shots it looks like you didn't overexposed enough to pull the shadows out. This 'might' be able to be corrected with a little fill light in LR, or my preferred method these days would be to use a layer mask and pull out the shadows.

2nd one. I too would like to see a bit more detail in the shadows of the building, though I do like the darker pavement of the first one FWIW.

The second one.

I've played little with the image. Unfortunately, it was only a jpeg, so a lot of information has been already stripped from the image. Hope you don't mind.

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The rework needs to have the color lowered quite a bit.

Mike, they both look a bit dark to me. Of course, the sky isn't, but what looks like it should be the target (bldg) is too dark. JMHO Of the two, two is my choice.

Gary McDuffie wrote in post #11011640
The rework needs to have the color lowered quite a bit.

Mike, they both look a bit dark to me. Of course, the sky isn't, but what looks like it should be the target (bldg) is too dark. JMHO Of the two, two is my choice.

Yeah, I've noticed that too when I looked at it on the home monitor. I was bored during lunch, but apparently my work laptop is lacking color, because it looked much better there.
Oh, well!

No. two for higher contrast in the building. No. one for seeing a little more in the shadows. Overall I like the impact of no. two.