We were pulling into my wife grandmother's house when I saw a great view of Mt. McLoughlin. I grabbed the 50D and thought I might try an HDR shot. I don't do these often, mainly because I am lazy and they take a lot more post production work but they can be pretty effective in getting a dynamic shot.
I got this shot by combining three exposures using the auto-bracketing feature of the camera. It takes a light, medium and dark exposure. It helps if you use a tripod because the more difference in shots, the harder they are to blend. Also, fast memory cards help as well because your camera will be able to write quicker to it. After I got the shots I wanted, I blended them together using a program called Photomatix. I then applied a slight vignette using the lens correction filter in Photoshop. This is not a perfect shot by any means but for on the fly with no tripod, it turned out pretty good. HDR shots often make good black and white images because of all the contrasting like this shot below.
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