Continuing with the HDR + Digital Blending technique, I went out again in between storms to take some shots.

The MeFOTO tripod performed really well on site as well as in post processing. Even after running 5 exposures through Photomatix and bringing the result into Pixelmator with one of the component photos did not need painstaking alignment. Especially since I didn't use a shutter release, and just held down the shutter button for seven auto bracketed exposures.