I went ahead and played around with the demo version of Photomatix since they’ve got a universal binary now and promptly broke down and bought it. The above image was generated with one RAW image processed multiple times with different exposure compensations. I think it looks pretty neat. For comparison’s sake, the original is here.
I also did another one with Andrew and Van that’s pretty cool too (that was my first attempt). I tried it on that one bridge picture that I thought would work well HDR, but I actually didn’t like the result that much. Maybe I’ll play around with it more…