Red Sand Beach
Here's a very secluded red sand beach in near the town of Hana on the island of Maui. Shutter speed went from 1/200th to 1/3 of a second. So there's about six stops of exposure difference between the darkest and brightest images. This is one of the nicer results I've gotten with HDR.
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Darkest exposure gives us a proper sky and clouds, but the shaded beach is too dark.
The tree leaves look better, but the beach is too dark, and the sky is too bright
Red sand looks pretty good, but the sky is totally blown out, and rock on the lower left is still too dark.
You can now see moss and some detail on the rock on the lower left, but EVERYTHING else is too bright.
Red sand beach after exposure enfusion. Note that we've balanced the trees, the beach and the sky.
Red sand beach, Maui. After running Enfuse, I applied sharpening, and chromatic aberration adjustments. Yes, the colors are a bit muted, but that's very close to how it looked.