To HDR or not HDR, that is the question

White is one of those colors that generally does not tend to go through the HDR rendering process all that well. Snow tends to look rather dirty. People are typically another no-no, unless you are trying to bring every blemish out of the shadows, in which case, HDR is your friend.

I was working with a white poinsettia (still alive from this past December, and still has its white leaves!) and did not find what I was looking for in the HDR process. The best image I came up with was the one that follows:

I liked my original image much better, even though (or maybe even, because?) the background is fairly well washed out.