Fried Toast posted a reply:
In low-light conditions, you want to have a fast lens and/or a high ISO setting.
Since you're new, I assume you have a kit lens, which is generally considered slow (f3.5~). This will limit your low-light shooting because the aperture will have to stay open longer to let more light in to get the photo you want. If you're using a tripod shooting immobile objects, then that's fine. If not, you're going to need to bump up your ISO setting up to compensate.
You'll have to shoot off a few test shots to get familiar with how the ISO will work in each setting. Once you get a feel for it, you'll be able to do it rather quickly, I think. If you're not careful, too high of an ISO will make the dark areas of your photos very grainy. While this might be ok for occasional shots, I doubt it's what you're going to be aiming for all the time. Therefore, you'll need to play around with it a lot and get a feeling for what your tolerance limit for noise is.
Be sure to understand how the meter works in the viewfinder if you're not shooting in the Auto-Mode. I'd suggest hitting the manual for that one.
Low-Light Photography
HDR is a completely different beast. You might want to get a basic grip on your camera's functions before tackling HDR. For more information, Google's probably your best friend- there are tons of tutorials out there. Stuck in Customs has a tutorial up. He's got some fantastic HDR work here on Flickr. Might want to look him up.
Click on this shot and it'll give you a breakdown of my HDR workflow:
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