Nice ones Belgarion. The first one has a really surreal look.
Here's a couple I've taken.
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old one... can't find latest hdr's 
ok, got me inspired and used a raw from my italy study-travell. Set the contrast in the raw to maximum, set up everything right and then spit out 5 jpegs at different light steps - i know it's kinda cheating not to take 5 single pics but it was impossible within all those tourists to have a save spot just 2 seconds. I then imported the 5 jpegs to photoshop and started with the darkest (Light -2.0) one as a base. Took the next brighter one (Light -1.0) and started cutting parts out with layer-masks. repeated with the three left over jpegs. Then overlayed with the second brightest and darkest and set to multiply and inverted multiply and masked unused parts out - this two layers only to help in very darkareas and very bright areas (like clouds or under the bridge). Now loaded an "convert to greyscale" layer into the pic and set different values for every colorgradient and changed the layer to "luminacy" at 50% oppacity. Was my first try at handcreating a HDR and it came out pretty nice imho. Then I finetuned the perspective and turning a little bit but that's not really much about hdr, is it?
Firenze Arno bridge:
I did semi-automatic HDRs or DRIs with FDRTools before (which is free and can do the most things as well). But I really like the way I'm doing this in Photoshop. I tried to understand what makes a good hdr and thought of a way to do it. worked out kinda well and it's a lot of relexing during doing map-textures all day 
Btw: Your pictures are awesome but how much work is included if you use Photomatix? (I've never worked with that tool to an extent and don't know too much about it´)
Belgarion:
you made the 1st forrest photo with photomatix? doh i allways had a lot of problems with that tool
I used photomatix too but I haven't got effects like yours. Did you used tripod?
very impressive fotos there belgarion
That first one is stunning, Belgarion!
I have a question 
If I have scene with 1/200 on f/8 on EV 0 how should I set EV's for 2 and 3 photo?
I have a question
Well I guess you can use the exposure compensation to adjust the EV to +1 or -1 and so on until you cover as much of the dynamic range as possible...
I usually shoot a nine shot burst with auto-bracketing giving me -4 -3 -2 -1 0 +1 +2 +3 +4 EV
I checked RAW and HDR and here is the effect:
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swiss alps:
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flower shop in italy:
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they are at least photos :roll:
photomatix isn't free, so fuck it.
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