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That to you the 1st photo is very nice is fine. To me it is fake in light and colour (and not in a good way), the new kitsch fantasy look (although not the worst) from HDR nonsense which has proliferated itself in amateur circles in internet photography circles. Normal skies becoming threateningly stormy skies, colours becoming cartoonish and "omni directional light effects", I do not understand why some find that something to strive for. The constant hammering on the need for very high DR and then illustrate it with images like these (which do not utilise that very high DR anyway) is what I disagree with.

I admit that I too went through a "HDR" tryout phase, when the 1st HDR tone mapping software became available. Luckily, I quickly understood it for the fad that it is and stopped shooting bracketed exposures for landscapes.