Fall Color Trees: To Tonemap or Not to Tonemap

I had the chance to get some really nice fall color pictures this year. For today's image, I give you a before and after, an HDR edited image and one without the HDR editing.

The first is the non-HDR image. The trees are natural and yet colorful.

The second image is the HDR version. The color is... accelerated to a new level. There is something to this image that doesn't seem real, almost as though it were some kind of painting instead of a photograph.

So, to the question: Which is better? The tonemapped HDR version, or the one without?

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