Cocklers

I took this at Crosby a couple of weeks back. This is the first image I have processed using the HDR method.



I think it came out quite well. I purposely didn't bring out the detail in the foreground as it was very noisy. Although it is a HDR I processed it from one exposure.
First I opened The RAW in Lightroom and saved it as three separate files. Each at a different exposure. -2 stops, normal exposure and +2 stops.
then I imported all three files into Photomatix and fiddled about until i got this. Far easier than it sounds and all in my first attempt.

Here's a few useful links:

Adobe Lightroom
Photomatix
Pete Carr's HDR Tutorial