[Motion blur in HDR merge]

Hello John - thanks for the suggestion. Do I need to separate the background from the trees in the source image? Or can I do it with the unedited original image? If I clone from the unedited original image, how do I account for the sky being overexposed near the trees in the original image? Is there some kind of blending trick I can use to get rid of that?

[Motion blur in HDR merge]

I took an exposure bracketed photo so that I could HDR merge it on affinity photo. The problem is that there is a tree in the shot in which the leaves seem to be moving from the wind. As a result, the tree in the final HDR image is a little blurry. Is there any way to fix this from Affinity photo?