Rose wrote:Mike - I do indeed shoot in RAW. I used to use a HDR aplciation to merge different exposures (subtly) but don't have that now on my Mac. Not sure how to do it in Photoshop (I have PS9). I use Lightroom 4 for most of my processing. Original version also now attached...
Rose, there is good news and bad news in respect of using HDR in Lightroom. The good news is that the latest version, 4.1, supports 32 bit HDR files, the bad news being that there is no actual HDR processing in Lightroom itself and it has to be done in Photoshop or another application such as Photomatix. You say that you have PS9, by which I presume you mean Photoshop Elements 9. Unfortunately, only full versions of Photoshop from CS5 onwards have HDR capability and Adobe has yet to implement it in Elements. A number of functions which were once the sole preserve of the main application have made it across, so perhaps one day?
I'll have a play with your image to see what I can do, but in the meantime Adobe has released a video demonstrating how Lightroom handles HDR files -
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2012/06/creating-32-bit-hdr-images-in-lightroom-4-1.html