Workflow HDR

From the top, just love the +Nik Photography  collection. I've fumble a bit with it past month but the other day I bought the collection, about 100€, and I couldn't be happier.
I'm now going to take you though my workflow using Nik and Lightroom.

I was out the other evening scouting locations for capturing the autumn foliage colors when I came upon this abandoned quarry about one hour drive from were I live.

This is the normal exposure, taken from a set of 3. -2, normal and +2.

I took the three exposures though HDR Efex Pro 2, were I used the preset "Graduated" and did some tweaks to it. and this is the result after a touch of Lightroom (spot-removal, crop, lens-correction)

This is were I usually was content and I think it is a good image. But little did I know what Viveza, Color Efex and Sharpener did to the picture.
I used Viveza 2 to umpf up the rocks and some sky tweaking
Color Efex pro 4 for creating more feeling of warmth to the photo.
Last I threw it through Sharpener Pro 3.0, and got this result

And if I may say so, this picture is great :-)
For full resolution please check it out at my portfolio.

By the way, I'm not sponsored by Nik or anything.

I wish you all a great weekend
/Fredrik