Another experiment. Handheld exposures at +2 0 -2 using an inexpensive 0.45x wide angle attachment. Here is the 0 EV RAW image, the best I could do importing into PS…
The camera did a good job with the exposure to get shadow details, but the sky is blown. Here is the tone compression image, which approximates what I get with Lightroom, but better for having the dynamic range of three exposures…
And finally the detail enhancer, plus some post-processing in PS to increase the global contrast and color saturation…
This last image begins to approximate the “HDR Look” I think. Pushed it just to the edge of natural in this case. Notice the obvious detail on the porch, which was in deep shadow!