TheRoff, you should not allow certain tonal adjustments to occur. It is recommended that you only do noise reduction, chromatic abberations and white balance. If your image is off on exposure, you can correct all three the same amount. Color temp is okay, too.


You could skip the noise reduction, and use an aftermarket program later on in the final HDR correction, in Photoshop, for example, or Noise Ninja, etc.


Things like brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpening, and a few others are not recommended.


These are further done in the Photomatix program, then polished up further in Photoshop.


At least, that's what the experts recommend.