My 1st Attempt at HDR

This is my first attempt at HDR (High Definition Range Imaging). This was a picture i took at the gloomy cove last week. With a few exposure setting in RAW and a kodak-lomo filter later, i would say the image looks alright compared to the original. More HDR attempts to come. Before photo on top and rendered photo on bottom. Shot with my Canon 20d.

UPDATE (bottom picture): So i took the HDR editing to the next step with tone mapping and now it looks so crazy real that it looks fake. I dont know if that made sense but ya know what i mean.