Bodie Ghost Town is an incredible location to spend a few hours shooting. I rarely use HDR as an illustration technique but in this example I used it but pulled back from the dark moody feel which is typical of most HDR’s. This feel required more than moving sliders from one side to another. After I generated my HDR image I created a black and white image and pulled back the opacity to about 40% and than pumped up the saturation in the color background layer.