I kinda though thats how an HDR is soposed to work. If the river and trees were exposed properly, the sky was washed out. With the HDR I used the same raw shot and created 3 jpegs. One being -2ev on the exposure (bring out the detail in the skiy), one -1ev and one at normal exposure. Lightroom was used for normal image editing and then photomatix for the HDR stuff.