TBH one very good way to go is:
Strenght: 100, smoothing max, saturation at middle. Max luminosity, max micro. Leave others at 0.

Then, create another exposure fusion pic. Import all exposures to photoshop as layers, then exposure fusion and then HDR.

Then mask or erase parts that dont look ok. Skies often come horrible with HDR and loads of noise when exposure fusion skies look damn lot better. Ghosts aka moving people etc can be masked from 0 EV shot etc.