@Daniel: I find that hdr is often necessary to recreate a scene they way you saw it when you took the picture --to recreate what drew you to the shot in the first place. I suppose that this is partly because you often see a greater dynamic range that what you can ordinarily capture; and partly because you see an image under the influence of imagination that is often more than the simple scene before you.
Thank you. The frustrating thing is that I can't get this one to print the way it looks on the monitor --the rest of the image is a good match but the blue chairs don't have the same punch.