My first impressions of HDR was that it was for scenes where you can't capture the shot without washing out the brights or losing the shadows. So capture both and blend them. I don't get the appeal behind making daytime skies look way too dark, but I do understand why you would want them to be blue instead of white.
I see it more as something you would use to get excessive overall contrast into a normal range, than to create excessive local contrast from a normal picture. Am I completely wrong?
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