+1 EV with highlight pull-down and shadow pull-up, 2:1 crop and not much else:
Sunset Over Cherry Creek Reservoir by
David Stephens, on Flickr
This is my preferred MO.
For the record, I use DxO Optics Pro for RAW conversion, v. 10.4 at the moment. When I do multi-shot HDR, I use PS to Merge after conversion to TIFF in DxO.
Dave