Thanks Joe. It's amazing to see the difference between the EV-0 shot and the final HDR results. I really like what it does to the sky in 2 and 4 and shadows in 6. After discovering HDR, I'm afraid that I will have to get a larger hard drive or an additional side-kick drive to store all of my image files.
Thank you. Being relatively new to creative digital photography, I wasn't familiar with Topaz. Your comment peaked my curiosity, so I checked out Topaz on the Internet. It definitely sounds like a good set of plug-ins. So far the only software I currently have is Photoshop Elements and Photomatrix.