If this idiot believes HDR should be banned maybe he believes the Post Processing should also be banned? As surely the shot as taken is the only pure image? What a nutter, while I may not like how some people process their images, I am in no position, either morally or artistically, as to if they are doing it right. What a complete A**e (scuse my language) I frequent a lot of forums and see so many comments saying you should have done that or this is wrong or one memorable occaision I got a reply on an image explaining that I should have used a higher ISO and no flash, brilliant I was using a Fuji S2 pro and the settings he was suggesting hadn't been thought of when it was built.
My advice is stick to your guns, experiment, produce what you like but see what others do, I love HDR and on occaison over produce it, sometimes it is good othertimes not so. But all it is is another tool to use to get out images looking how we want them to, which is a personal choice after all.
There is a programme called Dynamic-photo-HDR which will happily 'Fake' a HDR image from a single picture, its not bad at all. It also does full on HDR processing and accepts RAW files. Not a bad piece of kit.
Good luck to you all and happy snapping
My advice is stick to your guns, experiment, produce what you like but see what others do, I love HDR and on occaison over produce it, sometimes it is good othertimes not so. But all it is is another tool to use to get out images looking how we want them to, which is a personal choice after all.
There is a programme called Dynamic-photo-HDR which will happily 'Fake' a HDR image from a single picture, its not bad at all. It also does full on HDR processing and accepts RAW files. Not a bad piece of kit.
Good luck to you all and happy snapping