HDR images from PS CC blown out in LR5

Question

So I have taken three images from LR5 and edited in HDR-Pro in PS CC directly from LR.  I did not do anything to the images prior to moving them into HDR Pro.  Used ACR to tone map, then saved the photo using "save".  When I go back to LR5, the picture is nowhere what it is in PS.  Highlights are blown and greatly over exposed.  The same saved TIF looks great in PS.  What am I missing?  Thanks!

Answer 1

...apply all image adjustments to the 32 bit HDR file inside LR. This is especially true if your PS/ACR version is older than your LR version.
Select exposure bracketed Images inside LR>Edit In> Merge to HDR Pro in Photoshop>
One comment: this method is a little problematic when your ACR version is older than your LR version, because it necessarily involves ACR doing the Raw conversion / rendering of your adjustments, and not Lightroom.
This is by contrast with editing a single image, where the "Render in Lightroom" workflow is able to simply sidestep the whole issue of ACR compatibility.
With the multiple-image and the smart-object PS editing functions, in order for LR adjustments to be applied 100% reliably, they will (strictly speaking) need to restrict themselves to the older process version which the ACR in question, can fully understand.
Of course, when one is dealing with only the most basic adjustments of the camera files pre-HDR merge, with the bulk of the active LR processing to happen later (onto the 32-bit HDR file), then this is not a great hardship. The later processing CAN still happen under the current LR process version, since it constitutes an entirely different image so far as LR is concerned.
RP