Holy over-filter! Well, now you know what HDR is, just work on using it. The idea is not to make the most over-filtered picture you can. It's to bring out the details in the shadows without blowing out the highlights.
Here's two groups I belong to. Take a look at some of their pictures and that'll help give you ideas.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/qualityhdr/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/hdr/
You can replicate the end result if you shoot in RAW. LucisArt has a few effects that will help with replication. I still haven't mastered HDR, or even come close. There's still a lot to learn. If you see some of the pro's pictures, you'll soon see it'd be hard to replicate it with just one photo.
Ok, so here's some of my HDR work. Some is more filtered than others. For the most part, I tend to use HDR to bring out the details of items in the shadows, and not to make surreal photos, though on occasion, I will. I use a wide range of techniques and programs, because each image reacts differently to the process. I take three exposures. -2,0,+2 and go from there. I use Photoshop for final editing. For the HDR conversion and tone-mapping, I use Artizen, Photomatix, and Dynamic-Photo HDR. For Photoshop effects, I mostly use Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 and LucisArt occasionally.
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