However, I fail to see that the image in question required HDR approach. It seems it could be handled by the standard set of LR adjustments, which would give you a better control of halos, among other things.
I tend to agree with that.
Actually I was doing something different, looking in the opposite direction, with the Sun on my back
When I finished and turned around to fetch my things and go I saw this landscape.
I decided to compose the picture and then bracket the exposures, just in case. I was really leaving by then.
I was curious about this HDR thing and so later I tried it with the three bracketed shots. I liked the result and left it at that
It was useful, now I know more about those hallowed haloes