@CriticalConundrum On which color space?
EDIT: I agree, working with the hdrmerge output is easy. I got something like this, without layers:
But with that I loose all compressed dynamic range provided by enfuse. In the workflow I’m trying to achieve, I create images with different exposures from the hdrmerge output and then merge them with enfuse. With that, you compress all dynamic range into a single image, which could then be edited, revealing tonalities at taste. Also, by doing those steps on a wider gamut color space, you make sure you don’t loose any data. See this post.
Working with enfuse gives me much better results on the shadows:
My point is also achieving the same results on the highlights, which I thought I would be able to do in the same edit session. But, as @afre said, I probably will need to split this workflow into three parts, one for shadows, one for highlights and then merge the two outputs.