pseudo hdri

after some digging around, i found a nifty photoshop actions plug-in that simulates hdr images (hence, pseudo hdri.) i played around with some images and am sort of learning through process of elimination which types of images work better than others and also keeping some ideas in mind for potential true hdr images for the future. this isn't so much the attempt for the acquisition of a new "talent" as it is "yet one more thing to do on my computer to kill time during a freezing nor'easter."

here are the "better" results of my efforts thus far:

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