lets try some HDR shall we?

[merman]

Its my first dive into HDR pictures, i went out and shot a total of 9 exposures for it but i only used 7(0.+1,+2,+4,-1,-2,-4), the labeling only was influenced by the order of the shots, the 0 shot was iso 250 Exposure 4.5@1s. the only thing that was changed was the shutter speed, incremented up and down 1 stop.

I used layer masks and tone mapping in gimp to achieve the effect, it was trial and error for the most part, you will notice there are some blown out areas at the bottom, so tips on how to dull it down a little would be great!
shot 1- "0"
shot 2- "HDR"