I mean, technically it's a composite photo, but it's compositing 3 photos of the exact same thing (with different settings). That's not what we're talking about

I mean, technically it's a composite photo, but it's compositing 3 photos of the exact same thing (with different settings). That's not what we're talking about here when we talk about composite photos, especially because the whole point of HDR is to try and recreate what your eye is seeing.